Snakes, spiders and scorpions, sentence 0
Some places have venomous creatures: rattlesnakes and bark scorpions in Arizona and Texas, black widow spiders across much of the USA, brown snakes, redback and funnel-web spiders in Australia, and the adder in Britain.
Who acts: places · What happens: have · To what, where: venomous creatures
This is a sentence of the lesson «Snakes, spiders and scorpions» of the everyday 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 (places), 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 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 2 places | det |
| 2 | places | place | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 have | nsubj |
| 3 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | venomous | venomous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 creatures | amod |
| 5 | creatures | creature | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 have | obj |
| 6 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 7 rattlesnakes | punct |
| 7 | rattlesnakes | rattlesnake | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 creatures | appos |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 scorpions | cc |
| 9 | bark | bark | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 scorpions | compound |
| 10 | scorpions | scorpion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 rattlesnakes | conj |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 Arizona | case |
| 12 | Arizona | Arizona | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 rattlesnakes | nmod |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 Texas | cc |
| 14 | Texas | Texas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Arizona | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 spiders | punct |
| 16 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 spiders | amod |
| 17 | widow | widow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 spiders | compound |
| 18 | spiders | spider | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 rattlesnakes | conj |
| 19 | across | across | ADP | _ | 20 much | case |
| 20 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 spiders | nmod |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 USA | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 USA | det |
| 23 | USA | USA | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 much | nmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 snakes | punct |
| 25 | brown | brown | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 snakes | amod |
| 26 | snakes | snake | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 rattlesnakes | conj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 redback | punct |
| 28 | redback | redback | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 rattlesnakes | conj |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 spiders | cc |
| 30 | funnel | funnel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 web | compound |
| 31 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 30 funnel | punct |
| 32 | web | web | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 spiders | compound |
| 33 | spiders | spider | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 redback | conj |
| 34 | in | in | ADP | _ | 35 Australia | case |
| 35 | Australia | Australia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 spiders | nmod |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 adder | punct |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 adder | cc |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 adder | det |
| 39 | adder | adder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 rattlesnakes | conj |
| 40 | in | in | ADP | _ | 41 Britain | case |
| 41 | Britain | Britain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 39 adder | nmod |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 have | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | some places | venomous creatures | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent creature=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:everyday:025-snakes-spiders-and-scorpions.lesson:0.
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 ×2, 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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