Surprising brains: tool-using fish, counting bees, laughing rats and clever pigs, sentence 15
Some jumping spiders plan a detour, losing sight of their prey before sneaking up from behind; they have eight eyes, and the two big front ones see sharp details.
Who acts: jumping spiders, Pigs, two big front ones · What happens: jump, plan, lose, sneak up, have, see · To what, where: detour, sight, eight eyes, sharp details, prey
This is a sentence of the lesson «Surprising brains: tool-using fish, counting bees, laughing rats and clever pigs» 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 (jumping spiders, Pigs, two big front ones), 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 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 3 spiders | det |
| 2 | jumping | jump | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 spiders | amod |
| 3 | spiders | spider | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 plan | nsubj |
| 4 | plan | plan | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 detour | det |
| 6 | detour | detour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 plan | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 losing | punct |
| 8 | losing | lose | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 plan | advcl |
| 9 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 losing | obj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 prey | case |
| 11 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 prey | nmod:poss |
| 12 | prey | prey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 sight | nmod |
| 13 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 14 sneaking | mark |
| 14 | sneaking | sneak | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 plan | advcl |
| 15 | up | up | ADV | _ | 14 sneaking | compound:prt |
| 16 | from | from | ADP | _ | 17 behind | case |
| 17 | behind | behind | ADV | _ | 14 sneaking | obl |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 have | punct |
| 19 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 have | nsubj |
| 20 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 plan | parataxis |
| 21 | eight | eight | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 22 eyes | nummod |
| 22 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 have | obj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 see | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 see | cc |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 ones | det |
| 26 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 29 ones | nummod |
| 27 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 ones | amod |
| 28 | front | front | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 ones | amod |
| 29 | ones | one | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 see | nsubj |
| 30 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 have | conj |
| 31 | sharp | sharp | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 details | amod |
| 32 | details | detail | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 see | obj |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 plan | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | jump | gerund | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | plan | present | some jumping spiders | a detour | vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent detour=Topic | ||||
| 3 | lose | gerund | some jumping spiders not said here | sight of Pigs's prey | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sight=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | sneak up | gerund | some jumping spiders not said here | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from behind=Trajectory | |||||
| 5 | have | present | Pigs = pig | eight eyes | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Patient | ||||
| 6 | see | present | the two big front ones | sharp details | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer detail=Stimulus | ||||
| 7 | sight | Pigs's prey | nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=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:388-surprising-brains-tool-using-fish-counting-bees-laughing-rats-and-clever-pigs.lesson:15.
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): R7-rel-agree ×2. 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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