Classifying unusual animals, sentence 3
A spider is not an insect: it has eight legs, two body parts and no antennae or wings; a woodlouse with fourteen legs is not an insect either, it is a relative of crabs.
Who acts: spider, insect · What happens: not be, have, be · To what, where: insect, eight legs, relative
This is a sentence of the lesson «Classifying unusual animals» of the world 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 (spider, insect), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 spider | det |
| 2 | spider | spider | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 insect | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 insect | cop |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 insect | advmod |
| 5 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 insect | det |
| 6 | insect | insect | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 insect | nsubj |
| 7 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 9 has | punct |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 has | nsubj |
| 9 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 insect | parataxis |
| 10 | eight | eight | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 legs | nummod |
| 11 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 has | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 parts | punct |
| 13 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 parts | nummod |
| 14 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 parts | compound |
| 15 | parts | part | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 legs | conj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 antennae | cc |
| 17 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 18 antennae | det |
| 18 | antennae | antennae | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 legs | conj |
| 19 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 20 wings | cc |
| 20 | wings | wing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 antennae | conj |
| 21 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 woodlouse | punct |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 woodlouse | det |
| 23 | woodlouse | woodlouse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 insect | conj |
| 24 | with | with | ADP | _ | 26 legs | case |
| 25 | fourteen | fourteen | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 26 legs | nummod |
| 26 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 woodlouse | nmod |
| 27 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 insect | cop |
| 28 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 30 insect | advmod |
| 29 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 insect | det |
| 30 | insect | insect | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 31 | either | either | ADV | _ | 30 insect | advmod |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 either | punct |
| 33 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 relative | nsubj |
| 34 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 36 relative | cop |
| 35 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 36 relative | det |
| 36 | relative | relative | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 insect | parataxis |
| 37 | of | of | ADP | _ | 38 crabs | case |
| 38 | crabs | crab | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 relative | nmod |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 insect | 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 | not is a | present | a spider | a insect and a woodlouse with fourteen legs | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | have | present | spider | eight legs and two body parts and no antennae or wings | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leg=Patient | ||||
| 3 | not is a | present | a insect and a woodlouse with fourteen legs | a insect | either property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | is a | present | spider | a relative | of crabs | tree rules |
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:world:029-classifying-unusual-animals.lesson:3.
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): R6-punct-agree ×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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