The reptile house: Komodo dragons, chameleons, tortoises and crocodiles, sentence 8

Geckos stick to glass with millions of tiny toe hairs that cling by very weak attractions between molecules, and scientists have made tape that copies them.

Who acts: Geckos, tiny toe hairs, scientists, tape · What happens: stick, cling, make, copy · To what, where: tape, scientists

This is a sentence of the lesson «The reptile house: Komodo dragons, chameleons, tortoises and crocodiles» 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 (Geckos, tiny toe hairs, scientists, tape), 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	Geckos	gecko	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 stick	nsubj
2	stick	stick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	4 glass	case
4	glass	glass	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 stick	obl
5	with	with	ADP	_	6 millions	case
6	millions	million	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 stick	obl
7	of	of	ADP	_	10 hairs	case
8	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 hairs	amod
9	toe	toe	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 hairs	compound
10	hairs	hair	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 millions	nmod
11	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 cling	nsubj
12	cling	cling	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 hairs	acl:relcl
13	by	by	ADP	_	16 attractions	case
14	very	very	ADV	_	15 weak	advmod
15	weak	weak	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 attractions	amod
16	attractions	attraction	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 cling	obl
17	between	between	ADP	_	18 molecules	case
18	molecules	molecule	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 attractions	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 made	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 made	cc
21	scientists	scientist	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 made	nsubj
22	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 made	aux
23	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 stick	conj
24	tape	tape	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 made	obj
25	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 copies	nsubj
26	copies	copy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 tape	acl:relcl
27	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 copies	obj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 stick	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	stick	present	Geckos		to glass; with millions of tiny toe hairs	vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with million=Instrument
2	cling	present	tiny toe hairs		by weak attractions between molecules	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by attraction=Location
3	make	present · perfect	scientists	tape		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset tape=Product
4	copy	present	tape	scientists = scientist		vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme

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:088-reptile-house-komodo-chameleons-tortoises-crocodiles.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): no change. 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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