Small creatures and creepy-crawlies, sentence 11
House flies live about two to four weeks; it is adult mayflies that may live only hours or a day.
Who acts: House flies, name, adult mayflies · What happens: live, be · To what, where: adult mayflies
This is a sentence of the lesson «Small creatures and creepy-crawlies» 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 (House flies, name, adult mayflies), 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 | House | House | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 flies | compound |
| 2 | flies | fly | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 live | nsubj |
| 3 | live | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | about | about | ADP | _ | 8 weeks | case |
| 5 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 weeks | nummod |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 four | case |
| 7 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 two | nmod |
| 8 | weeks | week | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 live | obl:unmarked |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 mayflies | punct |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 mayflies | nsubj |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 mayflies | cop |
| 12 | adult | adult | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 mayflies | amod |
| 13 | mayflies | mayfly | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 live | parataxis |
| 14 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 live | nsubj |
| 15 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 live | aux |
| 16 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 mayflies | acl:relcl |
| 17 | only | only | ADV | _ | 18 hours | advmod |
| 18 | hours | hour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 live | obl |
| 19 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 21 day | cc |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 day | det |
| 21 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 hours | conj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 live | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | present | House flies | week | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | name | adult mayflies | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | live | may | adult mayflies | hour | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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:009-small-creatures-and-creepy-crawlies.lesson:11.
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): no change. 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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