The insect house: ants, stick insects, tarantulas and scorpions, sentence 8
Most tarantulas are not dangerous to people; their bite is like a bee sting, and some flick itchy hairs from their belly at predators; females can live 20 years or more.
Who acts: Most tarantulas, bite, some, females, tarantulas · What happens: not be, be, flick, live, bite · To what, where: itchy hairs, belly
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 (Most tarantulas, bite, some, females), 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 | Most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 2 tarantulas | amod |
| 2 | tarantulas | tarantula | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 dangerous | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 dangerous | cop |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 dangerous | advmod |
| 5 | dangerous | dangerous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 people | case |
| 7 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 dangerous | obl |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 sting | punct |
| 9 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 bite | nmod:poss |
| 10 | bite | bite | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 sting | nsubj |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 sting | cop |
| 12 | like | like | ADP | _ | 15 sting | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 sting | det |
| 14 | bee | bee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 sting | compound |
| 15 | sting | sting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 dangerous | parataxis |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 flick | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 flick | cc |
| 18 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 19 flick | nsubj |
| 19 | flick | flick | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 sting | conj |
| 20 | itchy | itchy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 hairs | amod |
| 21 | hairs | hair | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 flick | obj |
| 22 | from | from | ADP | _ | 24 belly | case |
| 23 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 belly | nmod:poss |
| 24 | belly | belly | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 flick | obl |
| 25 | at | at | ADP | _ | 26 predators | case |
| 26 | predators | predator | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 flick | obl |
| 27 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 30 live | punct |
| 28 | females | female | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 live | nsubj |
| 29 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 30 live | aux |
| 30 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 flick | conj |
| 31 | 20 | 20 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 32 years | nummod |
| 32 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 live | obl |
| 33 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 34 more | cc |
| 34 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 32 years | conj |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 dangerous | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | present | Most tarantulas | to people; dangerous property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | present | tarantulas's bite | like a bee sting | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | flick | present | some | itchy hairs | tarantulas's belly | at predators | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent hair=Theme at predator=Destination | ||
| 4 | live | can | females | year | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | bite | tarantulas = tarantula | nom bite «state transitive»: poss=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:8.
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): R2-punct-next ×1, 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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