Spiders and other minibeasts under logs and stones, sentence 9
The idea that people swallow spiders in their sleep is a myth; a sleeping person breathes, snores and has a beating heart, and those vibrations warn spiders away.
Who acts: people, idea, sleeping person, vibrations · What happens: swallow, be, sleep, breathe, snore, have · To what, where: spiders, sleep, myth, beating heart
This is a sentence of the lesson «Spiders and other minibeasts under logs and stones» of the biology 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 (people, idea, sleeping person, vibrations), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 idea | det |
| 2 | idea | idea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 myth | nsubj |
| 3 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 5 swallow | mark |
| 4 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 swallow | nsubj |
| 5 | swallow | swallow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 idea | acl |
| 6 | spiders | spider | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 swallow | obj |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 sleep | case |
| 8 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 sleep | nmod:poss |
| 9 | sleep | sleep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 swallow | obl |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 myth | cop |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 myth | det |
| 12 | myth | myth | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 breathes | punct |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 person | det |
| 15 | sleeping | sleep | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 person | amod |
| 16 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 breathes | nsubj |
| 17 | breathes | breathe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 myth | parataxis |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 snores | punct |
| 19 | snores | snore | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 breathes | conj |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 has | cc |
| 21 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 breathes | conj |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 heart | det |
| 23 | beating | beating | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 heart | compound |
| 24 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 has | obj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 warn | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 warn | cc |
| 27 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 28 vibrations | det |
| 28 | vibrations | vibration | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 warn | nsubj |
| 29 | warn | warn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 breathes | conj |
| 30 | spiders | spider | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 warn | obj |
| 31 | away | away | ADV | _ | 29 warn | advmod |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 myth | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=assert
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | swallow | present | people | spiders | people's sleep | vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spider=Patient | |||
| 2 | is a | present | the idea | a myth | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | sleep | gerund | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | breathe | present | a sleeping person | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | snore | present | a sleeping person not said here | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | have | present | a sleeping person not said here | a beating heart | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heart=Patient | ||||
| 7 | warn away speech: warn | present | that vibrations | spiders | away property | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent spider=Recipient | |||
| 8 | sleep | people | nom sleep «state intransitive»: poss=agent |
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:biology:220-spiders-and-other-minibeasts-under-logs-and-stones.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): 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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