When the teacher gets it wrong, sentence 8
Spiders are not insects; they are arachnids with eight legs, while insects have six.
Who acts: Spiders, insects · What happens: not be, be, have · To what, where: insects, arachnids, six
This is a sentence of the lesson «When the teacher gets it wrong» of the myths 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 (Spiders, insects), 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 | Spiders | spider | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 insects | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 insects | cop |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 insects | advmod |
| 4 | insects | insect | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 5 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 8 arachnids | punct |
| 6 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 arachnids | nsubj |
| 7 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 arachnids | cop |
| 8 | arachnids | arachnid | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 insects | parataxis |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 legs | case |
| 10 | eight | eight | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 legs | nummod |
| 11 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 arachnids | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 have | punct |
| 13 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 15 have | mark |
| 14 | insects | insect | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 have | nsubj |
| 15 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 insects | advcl |
| 16 | six | six | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 have | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 insects | 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 a | present | Spiders | insects | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | spiders = spider | arachnids | with eight legs | tree rules | |||
| 3 | have | present | insects | six | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent six=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:myths:033-when-the-teacher-gets-it-wrong.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): R7-rel-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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