The insect house: ants, stick insects, tarantulas and scorpions, sentence 2
Counting legs sorts them out: ants, beetles, mantises and cockroaches have six legs and are insects, while tarantulas and scorpions have eight and are relatives of spiders.
Who acts: Counting, ants, tarantulas · What happens: count, sort out, have, be · To what, where: legs, six legs, insects, eight, relatives
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 (Counting, ants, tarantulas), 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 | Counting | count | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 sorts | csubj |
| 2 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Counting | obj |
| 3 | sorts | sort | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 sorts | obj |
| 5 | out | out | ADP | _ | 3 sorts | compound:prt |
| 6 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 7 ants | punct |
| 7 | ants | ant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 have | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 beetles | punct |
| 9 | beetles | beetle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 ants | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 mantises | punct |
| 11 | mantises | mantis | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 ants | conj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 cockroaches | cc |
| 13 | cockroaches | cockroach | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 mantises | conj |
| 14 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 sorts | parataxis |
| 15 | six | six | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 legs | nummod |
| 16 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 have | obj |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 insects | cc |
| 18 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 insects | cop |
| 19 | insects | insect | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 have | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 have | punct |
| 21 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 25 have | mark |
| 22 | tarantulas | tarantula | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 have | nsubj |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 scorpions | cc |
| 24 | scorpions | scorpion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 tarantulas | conj |
| 25 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 sorts | advcl |
| 26 | eight | eight | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 25 have | obj |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 relatives | cc |
| 28 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 relatives | cop |
| 29 | relatives | relative | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 have | conj |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 spiders | case |
| 31 | spiders | spider | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 relatives | nmod |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sorts | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | count | gerund | legs | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leg=Theme | |||||
| 2 | sort out | present | Counting | legs = leg | vn classify-29.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | ||||
| 3 | have | present | ants and beetles and mantises and cockroaches | six legs | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leg=Patient | ||||
| 4 | is a | present | ants and beetles and mantises and cockroaches not said here | insects | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | have | present | tarantulas and scorpions | eight | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eight=Patient | ||||
| 6 | is a | present | tarantulas and scorpions not said here | relatives | of spiders | tree rules |
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:2.
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 ×2. 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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