How animals hunt, sentence 8
An orb-weaver spider waits on its sticky web and feels the vibrations of trapped insects through tiny hairs on its legs; for its weight, spider silk is stronger than steel.
Who acts: weaver spider, spider silk, trapped insects · What happens: wait, feel, trap, be, vibrate · To what, where: sticky web, vibrations, tiny hairs
This is a sentence of the lesson «How animals hunt» 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 (weaver spider, spider silk, trapped insects), 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 | An | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 spider | det |
| 2 | orb | orb | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 weaver | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 orb | punct |
| 4 | weaver | weaver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 spider | compound |
| 5 | spider | spider | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 waits | nsubj |
| 6 | waits | wait | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 web | case |
| 8 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 web | nmod:poss |
| 9 | sticky | sticky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 web | amod |
| 10 | web | web | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 waits | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 feels | cc |
| 12 | feels | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 waits | conj |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 vibrations | det |
| 14 | vibrations | vibration | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 feels | obj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 insects | case |
| 16 | trapped | trap | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 insects | amod |
| 17 | insects | insect | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 vibrations | nmod |
| 18 | through | through | ADP | _ | 20 hairs | case |
| 19 | tiny | tiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 hairs | amod |
| 20 | hairs | hair | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 feels | obl |
| 21 | on | on | ADP | _ | 23 legs | case |
| 22 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 legs | nmod:poss |
| 23 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 hairs | nmod |
| 24 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 32 stronger | punct |
| 25 | for | for | ADP | _ | 27 weight | case |
| 26 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 weight | nmod:poss |
| 27 | weight | weight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 stronger | obl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 weight | punct |
| 29 | spider | spider | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 silk | compound |
| 30 | silk | silk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 stronger | nsubj |
| 31 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 32 stronger | cop |
| 32 | stronger | strong | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 6 waits | parataxis |
| 33 | than | than | ADP | _ | 34 steel | case |
| 34 | steel | steel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 stronger | obl |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 waits | 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 | wait | present | a weaver spider | sound's sticky web | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on web=Location | ||||
| 2 | feel | present | a weaver spider not said here | the vibrations of trapped insects | tiny hairs on sound's legs | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent vibration=Theme through hair=Location | |||
| 3 | trap | participle | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | is | present | spider silk | for sound's weight; than steel; strong property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | vibrate | trapped insects | 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:052-how-animals-hunt.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): 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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