Silkworms and goldfish: two animals China changed, sentence 8
Silkworms are the caterpillars of the domestic silk moth, and they eat almost nothing but fresh mulberry leaves.
Who acts: Silkworms · What happens: be, eat · To what, where: caterpillars, nothing
This is a sentence of the lesson «Silkworms and goldfish: two animals China changed» of the biology course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Silkworms), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Silkworms | silkworm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 caterpillars | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 caterpillars | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 caterpillars | det |
| 4 | caterpillars | caterpillar | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 moth | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 moth | det |
| 7 | domestic | domestic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 moth | amod |
| 8 | silk | silk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 moth | compound |
| 9 | moth | moth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 caterpillars | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 eat | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 eat | cc |
| 12 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 eat | nsubj |
| 13 | eat | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 caterpillars | conj |
| 14 | almost | almost | ADV | _ | 15 nothing | advmod |
| 15 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 13 eat | obj |
| 16 | but | but | ADP | _ | 19 leaves | case |
| 17 | fresh | fresh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 leaves | amod |
| 18 | mulberry | mulberry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 leaves | compound |
| 19 | leaves | leaf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 nothing | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 caterpillars | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Silkworms | the caterpillars | of the domestic silk moth | tree rules | |||
| 2 | eat | present | silkworms = silkworm | nothing | but fresh mulberry leaves | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, mova-school-agreed-en.conllu) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence school:biology:381-silkworms-and-goldfish-two-animals-china-changed.lesson:8.
The tree: Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): no change. The frames are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (prag) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence.
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