The big biology quiz, part 4: everything from lessons 301 to 399, sentence 14
The silkworm, a caterpillar that eats mulberry leaves, spins silk for its cocoon; people in China have kept silkworms for thousands of years, and the domestic silk moth can no longer live in the wild.
Who acts: caterpillar, people · What happens: eat, spin, keep, live · To what, where: mulberry leaves, silk, silkworms, wild
This is a sentence of the lesson «The big biology quiz, part 4: everything from lessons 301 to 399» 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 (caterpillar, people), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 silkworm | det |
| 2 | silkworm | silkworm | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 caterpillar | punct |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 caterpillar | det |
| 5 | caterpillar | caterpillar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 silkworm | appos |
| 6 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 eats | nsubj |
| 7 | eats | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 caterpillar | acl:relcl |
| 8 | mulberry | mulberry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 leaves | compound |
| 9 | leaves | leaf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 eats | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 silk | punct |
| 11 | spins | spin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 eats | conj |
| 12 | silk | silk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 spins | obj |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 cocoon | case |
| 14 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 cocoon | nmod:poss |
| 15 | cocoon | cocoon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 spins | obl |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 kept | punct |
| 17 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 kept | nsubj |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 China | case |
| 19 | China | China | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 people | nmod |
| 20 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 kept | aux |
| 21 | kept | keep | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 silkworm | parataxis |
| 22 | silkworms | silkworm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 kept | obj |
| 23 | for | for | ADP | _ | 24 thousands | case |
| 24 | thousands | thousand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 kept | obl |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 years | case |
| 26 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 thousands | nmod |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 moth | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 moth | cc |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 moth | det |
| 30 | domestic | domestic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 moth | amod |
| 31 | silk | silk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 moth | compound |
| 32 | moth | moth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 silkworm | conj |
| 33 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 36 live | aux |
| 34 | no | no | ADV | _ | 35 longer | advmod |
| 35 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 36 live | advmod |
| 36 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 kept | conj |
| 37 | in | in | ADP | _ | 39 wild | case |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 wild | det |
| 39 | wild | wild | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 live | obl |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 silkworm | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | eat | present | a caterpillar | mulberry leaves | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leaf=Patient | ||||
| 2 | spin | present | a caterpillar not said here | silk | for leaf's cocoon | vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent silk=Result for cocoon=Beneficiary | |||
| 3 | keep | present · perfect | people in China | silkworms | for thousands of years | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent silkworm=Theme | |||
| 4 | live | can | people in China not said here | the wild | long property | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in wild=Location |
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:400-the-big-biology-quiz-part-4-everything-from-lessons-301-to-399.lesson:14.
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): R5-strong ×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.
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