Counting animals: eyes, ears, hearts, trunks, tentacles, teeth, sentence 6
Most spiders have 8 eyes, usually in two or three rows; some kinds have 6 or fewer and some cave spiders have none, and many web-builders feel the world through the vibrations of their silk.
Who acts: Most spiders, kinds, cave spiders, many web builders, silk · What happens: have, feel, vibrate · To what, where: 8 eyes, two rows, 6, none, world, vibrations
This is a sentence of the lesson «Counting animals: eyes, ears, hearts, trunks, tentacles, teeth» 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 (Most spiders, kinds, cave spiders, many web builders), 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 | Most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 2 spiders | amod |
| 2 | spiders | spider | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 have | nsubj |
| 3 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | 8 | 8 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 eyes | nummod |
| 5 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 have | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 rows | punct |
| 7 | usually | usually | ADV | _ | 12 rows | advmod |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 rows | case |
| 9 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 rows | nummod |
| 10 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 11 three | cc |
| 11 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 two | conj |
| 12 | rows | row | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 have | obl |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 have | punct |
| 14 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 15 kinds | det |
| 15 | kinds | kind | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 have | nsubj |
| 16 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 have | parataxis |
| 17 | 6 | 6 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 16 have | obj |
| 18 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 19 fewer | cc |
| 19 | fewer | few | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 17 6 | conj |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 have | cc |
| 21 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 23 spiders | det |
| 22 | cave | cave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 spiders | compound |
| 23 | spiders | spider | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 have | nsubj |
| 24 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 have | conj |
| 25 | none | none | PRON | PronType=Neg | 24 have | obj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 feel | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 feel | cc |
| 28 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 builders | amod |
| 29 | web | web | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 builders | compound |
| 30 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 29 web | punct |
| 31 | builders | builder | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 feel | nsubj |
| 32 | feel | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 have | conj |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 world | det |
| 34 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 feel | obj |
| 35 | through | through | ADP | _ | 37 vibrations | case |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 vibrations | det |
| 37 | vibrations | vibration | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 feel | obl |
| 38 | of | of | ADP | _ | 40 silk | case |
| 39 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 40 silk | nmod:poss |
| 40 | silk | silk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 vibrations | nmod |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 have | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | Most spiders | 8 eyes | two rows | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Patient | |||
| 2 | have | present | some kinds | 6 | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent 6=Patient | ||||
| 3 | have | present | some cave spiders | none | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent none=Patient | ||||
| 4 | feel | present | many web builders | the world | the vibrations of builders's silk | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent world=Theme through vibration=Location | |||
| 5 | vibrate | builders's silk | nom vibration «act intransitive»: of=agent |
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:041-counting-animals.lesson:6.
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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1, 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.
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