The insect house: ants, stick insects, tarantulas and scorpions, sentence 1
Every tank holds a different survival trick: a stick insect sways like a twig, a scorpion glows under ultraviolet light, a cockroach hisses and a mantis swivels its head to stare at you.
Who acts: tank, stick insect, scorpion, cockroach, mantis · What happens: hold, sway, glow, hiss, swivel, stare · To what, where: different survival trick, ultraviolet light, head
This is a sentence of the lesson «The insect house: ants, stick insects, tarantulas and scorpions» 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 (tank, stick insect, scorpion, cockroach), 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 | Every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 tank | det |
| 2 | tank | tank | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 holds | nsubj |
| 3 | holds | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 trick | det |
| 5 | different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 trick | amod |
| 6 | survival | survival | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 trick | compound |
| 7 | trick | trick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 holds | obj |
| 8 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 12 sways | punct |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 insect | det |
| 10 | stick | stick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 insect | compound |
| 11 | insect | insect | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 sways | nsubj |
| 12 | sways | sway | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 trick | acl |
| 13 | like | like | ADP | _ | 15 twig | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 twig | det |
| 15 | twig | twig | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 sways | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 glows | punct |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 scorpion | det |
| 18 | scorpion | scorpion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 glows | nsubj |
| 19 | glows | glow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 holds | conj |
| 20 | under | under | ADP | _ | 22 light | case |
| 21 | ultraviolet | ultraviolet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 light | amod |
| 22 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 glows | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 hisses | punct |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 cockroach | det |
| 25 | cockroach | cockroach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 hisses | nsubj |
| 26 | hisses | hiss | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 holds | conj |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 swivels | cc |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 mantis | det |
| 29 | mantis | mantis | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 swivels | nsubj |
| 30 | swivels | swivel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 hisses | conj |
| 31 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 head | nmod:poss |
| 32 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 swivels | obj |
| 33 | to | to | PART | _ | 34 stare | mark |
| 34 | stare | stare | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 30 swivels | advcl |
| 35 | at | at | ADP | _ | 36 you | case |
| 36 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 34 stare | obl |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 holds | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hold | present | every tank | a different survival trick | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trick=Theme | ||||
| 2 | sway | present | a stick insect | a different survival trick not said here | like a twig | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location trick=Theme | |||
| 3 | glow | present | a scorpion | ultraviolet light | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme under light=Location | ||||
| 4 | hiss | present | a cockroach | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | swivel | present | a mantis | mantis's head | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | stare | to-infinitive | a mantis not said here | at you | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at you=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:097-the-insect-house-ants-stick-insects-tarantulas-and-scorpions.lesson:1.
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.
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