Spiders, snakes and wild neighbours, sentence 8
Most house spiders are harmless and catch flies; you can catch one under a cup with a card and put it outside.
Who acts: Most house spiders, you · What happens: be, catch, put · To what, where: flies, one, cup, card
This is a sentence of the lesson «Spiders, snakes and wild neighbours» 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 (Most house spiders, you), 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 | 3 spiders | amod |
| 2 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 spiders | compound |
| 3 | spiders | spider | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 harmless | nsubj |
| 4 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 harmless | cop |
| 5 | harmless | harmless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 catch | cc |
| 7 | catch | catch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 harmless | conj |
| 8 | flies | fly | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 catch | obj |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 catch | punct |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 catch | nsubj |
| 11 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 catch | aux |
| 12 | catch | catch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 harmless | parataxis |
| 13 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 catch | obj |
| 14 | under | under | ADP | _ | 16 cup | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 cup | det |
| 16 | cup | cup | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 catch | obl |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 card | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 card | det |
| 19 | card | card | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 catch | obl |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 put | cc |
| 21 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 catch | conj |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 put | obj |
| 23 | outside | outside | ADV | _ | 21 put | advmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 harmless | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Most house spiders | harmless property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | catch | present | Most house spiders not said here | flies | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fly=Theme | ||||
| 3 | catch | can | you | one | a cup | with a card | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme | ||
| 4 | put | infinitive | you not said here | card | outside property | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent it=Goal |
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:069-spiders-snakes-and-wild-neighbours.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): R5-strong ×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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