Insects and spiders, sentence 11
Insects and spiders must moult their hard outer skeleton to grow.
Who acts: Insects · What happens: moult, grow · To what, where: hard outer skeleton
This is a sentence of the lesson «Insects and spiders» 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 (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 | Insects | insect | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 moult | nsubj |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 spiders | cc |
| 3 | spiders | spider | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Insects | conj |
| 4 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 moult | aux |
| 5 | moult | moult | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 skeleton | nmod:poss |
| 7 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 skeleton | amod |
| 8 | outer | outer | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 skeleton | amod |
| 9 | skeleton | skeleton | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 moult | obj |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 grow | mark |
| 11 | grow | grow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 moult | advcl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 moult | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | moult | must | Insects and spiders | Spiders's hard outer skeleton | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | grow | to-infinitive | Insects and spiders not said here | vn appear-48.1.1 «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:world:072-insects-and-spiders.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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