Animal builders: spiders' webs and silk, sentence 15

There is no evidence that people swallow spiders in their sleep; a sleeping person breathes, snores and moves, which spiders avoid, and the «fact» spread without proof.

Who acts: evidence, people, sleeping person, spiders, « fact · What happens: be, swallow, breathe, snore, move, avoid · To what, where: spiders, sleep

This is a sentence of the lesson «Animal builders: spiders' webs and silk» 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 (evidence, people, sleeping person, spiders), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 is	expl
2	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 evidence	det
4	evidence	evidence	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 is	nsubj
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	7 swallow	mark
6	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 swallow	nsubj
7	swallow	swallow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 evidence	acl
8	spiders	spider	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 swallow	obj
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 sleep	case
10	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 sleep	nmod:poss
11	sleep	sleep	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 swallow	obl
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 breathes	punct
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 person	det
14	sleeping	sleeping	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 person	amod
15	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 breathes	nsubj
16	breathes	breathe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 is	parataxis
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 snores	punct
18	snores	snore	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 breathes	conj
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 moves	cc
20	moves	move	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 breathes	conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 avoid	punct
22	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 avoid	obj
23	spiders	spider	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 avoid	nsubj
24	avoid	avoid	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 moves	parataxis
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 spread	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 spread	cc
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 fact	det
28	«	«	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 fact	amod
29	fact	fact	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 spread	nsubj
30	»	»	PUNCT	_	29 fact	punct
31	spread	spread	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 is	conj
32	without	without	ADP	_	33 proof	case
33	proof	proof	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 spread	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 is	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	be	present	no evidence		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	swallow	present	people	spiders	people's sleep		vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spider=Patient
3	breathe	present	a sleeping person				vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	snore	present	a sleeping person not said here				vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	move	present	a sleeping person not said here				vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
6	avoid	present	spiders				vn avoid-52 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent which=Location
7	spread	past	the « fact			without proof	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
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:244-animal-builders-spiders-webs-and-silk.lesson:15.

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 ×1, R8-pos-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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