The insect house: ants, stick insects, tarantulas and scorpions, sentence 14
The goliath and Hercules beetles are among the biggest insects; insects stay smallish partly because their breathing tubes work well only over short distances.
Who acts: goliath beetles, insects, breathing tubes · What happens: be, stay, work
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 (goliath beetles, insects, breathing tubes), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 beetles | det |
| 2 | goliath | goliath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 beetles | compound |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 Hercules | cc |
| 4 | Hercules | Hercules | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 goliath | conj |
| 5 | beetles | beetle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 insects | nsubj |
| 6 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 insects | cop |
| 7 | among | among | ADP | _ | 10 insects | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 insects | det |
| 9 | biggest | big | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 10 insects | amod |
| 10 | insects | insect | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 stay | punct |
| 12 | insects | insect | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 stay | nsubj |
| 13 | stay | stay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 insects | parataxis |
| 14 | smallish | smallish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 stay | xcomp |
| 15 | partly | partly | ADV | _ | 14 smallish | advmod |
| 16 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 20 work | mark |
| 17 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 tubes | nmod:poss |
| 18 | breathing | breathing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 tubes | compound |
| 19 | tubes | tube | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 work | nsubj |
| 20 | work | work | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 stay | advcl |
| 21 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 20 work | advmod |
| 22 | only | only | ADV | _ | 25 distances | advmod |
| 23 | over | over | ADP | _ | 25 distances | case |
| 24 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 distances | amod |
| 25 | distances | distance | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 work | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 insects | 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 | is | present | the goliath beetles | among the biggest insects | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | stay | present | insects | smallish property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | work | present | beetles's breathing tubes | over short distances; well property | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=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:097-the-insect-house-ants-stick-insects-tarantulas-and-scorpions.lesson:14.
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, R8-pos-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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