Bites, stings and scratches: mosquitoes, wasps, ticks, dog bites and cat scratches, sentence 17

Almost all spiders in Ukraine and Europe are harmless to people, most cannot even bite through our skin, and they bite only when trapped or squeezed; a spider has two fangs, eight legs and often eight eyes.

Who acts: spiders, most, spider · What happens: be, not bite, bite, trap, squeeze, have · To what, where: people, skin, two fangs

This is a sentence of the lesson «Bites, stings and scratches: mosquitoes, wasps, ticks, dog bites and cat scratches» 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 (spiders, most, spider), 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	Almost	almost	ADV	_	2 all	advmod
2	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 spiders	det
3	spiders	spider	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 harmless	nsubj
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 Ukraine	case
5	Ukraine	Ukraine	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 spiders	nmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 Europe	cc
7	Europe	Europe	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Ukraine	conj
8	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 harmless	cop
9	harmless	harmless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
10	to	to	ADP	_	11 people	case
11	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 harmless	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 bite	punct
13	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	17 bite	nsubj
14	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 bite	aux
15	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	17 bite	advmod
16	even	even	ADV	_	17 bite	advmod
17	bite	bite	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 people	acl:relcl
18	through	through	ADP	_	20 skin	case
19	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 skin	nmod:poss
20	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 bite	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 bite	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 bite	cc
23	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 bite	nsubj
24	bite	bite	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 harmless	conj
25	only	only	ADV	_	27 trapped	advmod
26	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	27 trapped	advmod
27	trapped	trap	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 bite	advcl
28	or	or	CCONJ	_	29 squeezed	cc
29	squeezed	squeeze	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	27 trapped	conj
30	;	;	PUNCT	_	33 has	punct
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 spider	det
32	spider	spider	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 has	nsubj
33	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 harmless	parataxis
34	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	35 fangs	nummod
35	fangs	fang	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 has	obj
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 legs	punct
37	eight	eight	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	38 legs	nummod
38	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 fangs	conj
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 eyes	cc
40	often	often	ADV	_	41 eight	advmod
41	eight	eight	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	42 eyes	nummod
42	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 fangs	conj
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 harmless	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	present	all spiders in Ukraine and Europe			to people; harmless property	tree rules
2	not bite	can	most	people not said here	our skin		vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent people=Patient through skin=Location
3	bite	present	spiders = spider				vn swat-18.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent
4	trap	participle	spiders = spider not said here				vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	squeeze	participle	spiders = spider not said here				vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent
6	have	present	a spider	two fangs and eight legs and eight eyes			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fang=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:399-bites-stings-and-scratches-mosquitoes-wasps-ticks-dog-bites-and-cat-scratches.lesson:17.

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 ×1. 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.

See the release 0.4.

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