The insect house: ants, stick insects, tarantulas and scorpions, sentence 9
Scorpions glow blue-green under ultraviolet light because of a chemical in their outer shell; scientists are not sure why, and they find scorpions at night with UV torches.
Who acts: Scorpions, scientists · What happens: glow, not be, find · To what, where: blue green, ultraviolet light, scorpions
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 (Scorpions, scientists), 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 | Scorpions | scorpion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 glow | nsubj |
| 2 | glow | glow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 green | amod |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 blue | punct |
| 5 | green | green | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 glow | obj |
| 6 | under | under | ADP | _ | 8 light | case |
| 7 | ultraviolet | ultraviolet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 light | amod |
| 8 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 glow | obl |
| 9 | because | because | ADP | _ | 12 chemical | case |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 because | fixed |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 chemical | det |
| 12 | chemical | chemical | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 glow | obl |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 shell | case |
| 14 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 shell | nmod:poss |
| 15 | outer | outer | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 shell | amod |
| 16 | shell | shell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 chemical | nmod |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 sure | punct |
| 18 | scientists | scientist | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 sure | nsubj |
| 19 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 sure | cop |
| 20 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 21 sure | advmod |
| 21 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 glow | parataxis |
| 22 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 21 sure | advmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 find | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 find | cc |
| 25 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 find | nsubj |
| 26 | find | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 sure | conj |
| 27 | scorpions | scorpion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 find | obj |
| 28 | at | at | ADP | _ | 29 night | case |
| 29 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 find | obl |
| 30 | with | with | ADP | _ | 32 torches | case |
| 31 | UV | ultra-violet | NOUN | Abbr=Yes Number=Sing | 32 torches | compound |
| 32 | torches | torch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 find | obl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 glow | 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 | glow | present | Scorpions | blue green | ultraviolet light | because a chemical in tarantulas's outer shell | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent green=Theme | ||
| 2 | not is | present | scientists | sure property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | find | present | scientists = scientist | scorpions | night | with UV torches | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent scorpion=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:9.
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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