The insect house: ants, stick insects, tarantulas and scorpions, sentence 12
A praying mantis can turn its head to follow moving prey before it strikes with spiky front legs, and tiny 3D glasses showed that mantises see depth.
Who acts: praying mantis, mantis, tiny 3D glasses, mantises · What happens: pray, turn, follow, move, strike, show · To what, where: head, moving prey, depth · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (praying mantis, mantis, tiny 3D glasses, mantises), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 mantis | det |
| 2 | praying | pray | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 mantis | amod |
| 3 | mantis | mantis | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 turn | nsubj |
| 4 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 turn | aux |
| 5 | turn | turn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 head | nmod:poss |
| 7 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 turn | obj |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 follow | mark |
| 9 | follow | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 turn | advcl |
| 10 | moving | move | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 prey | amod |
| 11 | prey | prey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 follow | obj |
| 12 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 14 strikes | mark |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 strikes | nsubj |
| 14 | strikes | strike | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 follow | advcl |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 legs | case |
| 16 | spiky | spiky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 legs | amod |
| 17 | front | front | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 legs | amod |
| 18 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 strikes | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 showed | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 showed | cc |
| 21 | tiny | tiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 glasses | amod |
| 22 | 3D | 3d | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 glasses | compound |
| 23 | glasses | glass | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 showed | nsubj |
| 24 | showed | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 turn | conj |
| 25 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 27 see | mark |
| 26 | mantises | mantis | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 see | nsubj |
| 27 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 showed | ccomp |
| 28 | depth | depth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 see | obj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 turn | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pray | gerund | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot | ||||||
| 2 | turn | can | a praying mantis | mantis's head | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent head=Theme | ||||
| 3 | follow | to-infinitive | a praying mantis not said here | moving prey | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prey=Theme | ||||
| 4 | move | gerund | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 5 | strike | present | mantis | with spiky front legs | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with leg=Theme | ||||
| 6 | show | past | tiny 3D glasses | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 7 | see | present | mantises | depth | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer depth=Stimulus |
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:12.
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 ×3. 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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