Insects and spiders, sentence 9
Many insects have compound eyes made of hundreds or thousands of tiny lenses, very good at seeing movement all around them.
Who acts: Many insects · What happens: have, make, see · To what, where: compound eyes, movement
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 (Many 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 | Many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 insects | amod |
| 2 | insects | insect | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 have | nsubj |
| 3 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | compound | compound | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 eyes | amod |
| 5 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 have | obj |
| 6 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 eyes | acl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 hundreds | case |
| 8 | hundreds | hundred | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 made | obl |
| 9 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 10 thousands | cc |
| 10 | thousands | thousand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 hundreds | conj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 lenses | case |
| 12 | tiny | tiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 lenses | amod |
| 13 | lenses | lens | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 hundreds | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 good | punct |
| 15 | very | very | ADV | _ | 16 good | advmod |
| 16 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 eyes | amod |
| 17 | at | at | SCONJ | _ | 18 seeing | mark |
| 18 | seeing | see | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 16 good | advcl |
| 19 | movement | movement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 seeing | obj |
| 20 | all | all | ADV | _ | 22 them | advmod |
| 21 | around | around | ADP | _ | 22 them | case |
| 22 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 seeing | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 have | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- pos
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | Many insects | compound eyes | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Patient | ||||
| 2 | make | participle | compound eyes not said here | of hundreds of tiny lenses or thousands | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | ||||
| 3 | see | gerund | Many insects not said here | movement | around lenses = lens | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer movement=Stimulus |
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:9.
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 ×3. 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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