The insect house: ants, stick insects, tarantulas and scorpions, sentence 3
Cartoons get the numbers wrong: the ants in A Bug's Life walk on two legs and wave two arms, but a real ant has six legs, all fixed to the middle of its body.
Who acts: Cartoons, ants, real ant · What happens: get, walk, wave, have, fix · To what, where: numbers, two legs, two arms, six legs
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 (Cartoons, ants, real ant), 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 | Cartoons | cartoon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 get | nsubj |
| 2 | get | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 numbers | det |
| 4 | numbers | number | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 get | obj |
| 5 | wrong | wrong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 get | xcomp |
| 6 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 8 ants | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 ants | det |
| 8 | ants | ant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 walk | nsubj |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 Life | case |
| 10 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 Bug | det |
| 11 | Bug | bug | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Life | nmod:poss |
| 12 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 11 Bug | case |
| 13 | Life | Life | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 ants | nmod |
| 14 | walk | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 get | parataxis |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 legs | case |
| 16 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 legs | nummod |
| 17 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 walk | obl |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 wave | cc |
| 19 | wave | wave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 walk | conj |
| 20 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 21 arms | nummod |
| 21 | arms | arm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 wave | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 has | punct |
| 23 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 27 has | cc |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 ant | det |
| 25 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 ant | amod |
| 26 | ant | ant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 has | nsubj |
| 27 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 walk | conj |
| 28 | six | six | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 29 legs | nummod |
| 29 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 has | obj |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 has | punct |
| 31 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 29 legs | appos |
| 32 | fixed | fix | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 29 legs | acl |
| 33 | to | to | ADP | _ | 35 middle | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 middle | det |
| 35 | middle | middle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 fixed | obl |
| 36 | of | of | ADP | _ | 38 body | case |
| 37 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 38 body | nmod:poss |
| 38 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 middle | nmod |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 get | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- neg
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | present | Cartoons | the numbers | wrong property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer number=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | walk | present | the ants in a Bug's Life | two legs | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on leg=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | wave | present | the ants in a Bug's Life not said here | two arms | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent arm=Patient | ||||
| 4 | have | present | a real ant | six legs | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leg=Patient | ||||
| 5 | fix | participle | six legs not said here | to the middle of middle's body | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent to middle=Co-Patient |
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:3.
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 ×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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