Insects and spiders, sentence 5
For example, a garden spider builds a sticky web and waits, while a jumping spider spins no web at all: it stalks its prey with its big front eyes and leaps on it like a tiny cat.
Who acts: garden spider, jumping spider, web · What happens: build, wait, jump, spin, stalk, leap · To what, where: sticky web, web, all, prey
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 (garden spider, jumping spider, web), 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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 2 example | case |
| 2 | example | example | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 builds | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 example | punct |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 spider | det |
| 5 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 spider | compound |
| 6 | spider | spider | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 builds | nsubj |
| 7 | builds | build | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 web | det |
| 9 | sticky | sticky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 web | amod |
| 10 | web | web | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 builds | obj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 waits | cc |
| 12 | waits | wait | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 builds | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 jumping | punct |
| 14 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 18 spins | mark |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 spider | det |
| 16 | jumping | jump | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 spider | amod |
| 17 | spider | spider | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 spins | nsubj |
| 18 | spins | spin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 builds | advcl |
| 19 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 20 web | det |
| 20 | web | web | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 spins | obj |
| 21 | at | at | ADP | _ | 22 all | case |
| 22 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 18 spins | obl |
| 23 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 18 spins | punct |
| 24 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 stalks | nsubj |
| 25 | stalks | stalk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 spins | conj |
| 26 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 prey | nmod:poss |
| 27 | prey | prey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 stalks | obj |
| 28 | with | with | ADP | _ | 32 eyes | case |
| 29 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 30 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 eyes | amod |
| 31 | front | front | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 eyes | amod |
| 32 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 stalks | obl |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 leaps | cc |
| 34 | leaps | leap | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 stalks | conj |
| 35 | on | on | ADP | _ | 36 it | case |
| 36 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 leaps | obl |
| 37 | like | like | ADP | _ | 40 cat | case |
| 38 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 40 cat | det |
| 39 | tiny | tiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 cat | amod |
| 40 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 leaps | obl |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 builds | 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 | build | present | a garden spider | a sticky web | for example | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: agent=Agent web=Product for example=Asset | |||
| 2 | wait | present | a garden spider not said here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | jump | gerund | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | spin | present | a jumping spider | no web | all | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent web=Theme | |||
| 5 | stalk | present | web | web's prey | with web's big front eyes | vn stalk-35.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prey=Theme | |||
| 6 | leap | present | web not said here | web | like a tiny cat | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on it=Trajectory |
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:5.
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 ×2, 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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