The insect house: ants, stick insects, tarantulas and scorpions, sentence 16
Zoos breed rare small animals like Partula snails, nearly wiped out on their islands by one predator snail that people brought in, and the Lord Howe Island stick insect, which was thought extinct until a few were found on a sea rock in 2001.
Who acts: Zoos, people · What happens: breed, wipe out, bring in, think, find · To what, where: rare small animals, Partula snails, islands, one predator snail, Island stick insect, few
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 (Zoos, people), 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 | Zoos | zoo | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 breed | nsubj |
| 2 | breed | breed | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | rare | rare | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 animals | amod |
| 4 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 animals | amod |
| 5 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 breed | obj |
| 6 | like | like | ADP | _ | 8 snails | case |
| 7 | Partula | Partula | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 snails | compound |
| 8 | snails | snail | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 animals | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 wiped | punct |
| 10 | nearly | nearly | ADV | _ | 11 wiped | advmod |
| 11 | wiped | wipe | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 snails | acl:relcl |
| 12 | out | out | ADP | _ | 11 wiped | compound:prt |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 islands | case |
| 14 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 islands | nmod:poss |
| 15 | islands | island | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 wiped | obl |
| 16 | by | by | ADP | _ | 19 snail | case |
| 17 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 19 snail | nummod |
| 18 | predator | predator | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 snail | compound |
| 19 | snail | snail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 wiped | obl:agent |
| 20 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 brought | obj |
| 21 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 brought | nsubj |
| 22 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 snail | acl:relcl |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 brought | compound:prt |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 insect | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 insect | cc |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 insect | det |
| 27 | Lord | Lord | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 Island | compound |
| 28 | Howe | Howe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 Island | compound |
| 29 | Island | Island | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 insect | compound |
| 30 | stick | stick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 insect | compound |
| 31 | insect | insect | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 breed | parataxis |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 thought | punct |
| 33 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 35 thought | nsubj:pass |
| 34 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 thought | aux:pass |
| 35 | thought | think | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 31 insect | acl:relcl |
| 36 | extinct | extinct | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 thought | xcomp |
| 37 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 41 found | mark |
| 38 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 39 few | det |
| 39 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 found | nsubj:pass |
| 40 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 41 found | aux:pass |
| 41 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 35 thought | advcl |
| 42 | on | on | ADP | _ | 45 rock | case |
| 43 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 45 rock | det |
| 44 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 rock | compound |
| 45 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 found | obl |
| 46 | in | in | ADP | _ | 47 2001 | case |
| 47 | 2001 | 2001 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 41 found | obl |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 breed | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed polarity=none
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | breed | present | Zoos | rare small animals | like Partula snails | tree rules | |||
| 2 | wipe out | participle | Partula snails not said here | zoos's islands | nearly property | vn funnel-9.3-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent on island=Trajectory | |||
| 3 | bring in | past | people | one predator snail | vn earn-54.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme that=Asset | ||||
| 4 | think speech: other | past · passive | the Island stick insect | extinct property | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 5 | find | past · passive | a few | a sea rock | in 2001 | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic |
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:16.
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, 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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