The microscopic world: tardigrades, mites, plankton and other tiny creatures, sentence 8

Dust mites are tiny relatives of spiders, with eight legs, that live in beds and carpets and eat flakes of dead skin; their droppings can cause allergies and asthma, and washing bedding hot and airing it keeps them down.

Who acts: Dust mites, spiders, droppings · What happens: be, live, eat, cause, wash, air · To what, where: tiny relatives, beds, flakes, allergies, bedding

This is a sentence of the lesson «The microscopic world: tardigrades, mites, plankton and other tiny creatures» 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 (Dust mites, spiders, droppings), 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	Dust	dust	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 mites	compound
2	mites	mite	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 relatives	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 relatives	cop
4	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 relatives	amod
5	relatives	relative	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 spiders	case
7	spiders	spider	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 relatives	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 legs	punct
9	with	with	ADP	_	11 legs	case
10	eight	eight	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 legs	nummod
11	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 spiders	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 live	punct
13	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 live	nsubj
14	live	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 spiders	acl:relcl
15	in	in	ADP	_	16 beds	case
16	beds	bed	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 live	obl
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 carpets	cc
18	carpets	carpet	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 beds	conj
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 eat	cc
20	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 live	conj
21	flakes	flake	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 eat	obj
22	of	of	ADP	_	24 skin	case
23	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 skin	amod
24	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 flakes	nmod
25	;	;	PUNCT	_	29 cause	punct
26	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 droppings	nmod:poss
27	droppings	dropping	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 cause	nsubj
28	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 cause	aux
29	cause	cause	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 relatives	parataxis
30	allergies	allergy	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 cause	obj
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 asthma	cc
32	asthma	asthma	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 allergies	conj
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 washing	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 keeps	cc
35	washing	wash	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	41 keeps	nsubj
36	bedding	bedding	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 washing	obj
37	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 washing	xcomp
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 airing	cc
39	airing	air	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	35 washing	conj
40	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 airing	obj
41	keeps	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 cause	conj
42	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 keeps	obj
43	down	down	ADP	_	41 keeps	compound:prt
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 relatives	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: neg
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Dust mites	tiny relatives		of spiders with eight legs	tree rules
2	live	present	spiders with eight legs		beds and carpets		vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in bed=Location
3	eat	present	spiders with eight legs not said here	flakes of dead skin			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flake=Patient
4	cause	can	mites's droppings	allergies and asthma			vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition allergy=Patient
5	wash	gerund		bedding		hot property	vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bedding=Patient
6	air	gerund		bedding			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient
7	keep down	present		allergies = allergy			vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient

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:259-the-microscopic-world-tardigrades-mites-plankton-and-other-tiny-creatures.lesson:8.

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, R8-pos-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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