Minibeasts in the house: house spiders, silverfish, woodlice, moths and cockroaches, sentence 16
Dust mites are about a quarter of a millimetre long, eat flakes of dead skin and have eight legs because they are relatives of spiders; their droppings can make some people sneeze and wheeze.
Who acts: Dust mites, mites, droppings, people · What happens: be, eat, have, make, sneeze, wheeze · To what, where: quarter, flakes, eight legs, relatives, people
This is a sentence of the lesson «Minibeasts in the house: house spiders, silverfish, woodlice, moths and cockroaches» 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, mites, droppings, people), 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 | 6 quarter | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 quarter | cop |
| 4 | about | about | ADV | _ | 6 quarter | advmod |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 quarter | det |
| 6 | quarter | quarter | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 millimetre | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 millimetre | det |
| 9 | millimetre | millimetre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 quarter | nmod |
| 10 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 6 quarter | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 eat | punct |
| 12 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 quarter | conj |
| 13 | flakes | flake | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 eat | obj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 skin | case |
| 15 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 skin | amod |
| 16 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 flakes | nmod |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 have | cc |
| 18 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 eat | conj |
| 19 | eight | eight | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 20 legs | nummod |
| 20 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 have | obj |
| 21 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 24 relatives | mark |
| 22 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 relatives | nsubj |
| 23 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 relatives | cop |
| 24 | relatives | relative | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 have | advcl |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 spiders | case |
| 26 | spiders | spider | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 relatives | nmod |
| 27 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 31 make | punct |
| 28 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 droppings | nmod:poss |
| 29 | droppings | dropping | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 make | nsubj |
| 30 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 31 make | aux |
| 31 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 eat | conj |
| 32 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 33 people | det |
| 33 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 make | obj |
| 34 | sneeze | sneeze | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 31 make | xcomp |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 wheeze | cc |
| 36 | wheeze | wheeze | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 34 sneeze | conj |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 eat | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Dust mites | a quarter | of a millimetre; about, long property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | eat | infinitive | Dust mites not said here | flakes of dead skin | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flake=Patient | ||||
| 3 | have | present | Dust mites not said here | eight legs | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leg=Patient | ||||
| 4 | is a | present | mites = mite | relatives | of spiders | tree rules | |||
| 5 | make | can | mites's droppings | some people | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | sneeze | infinitive | some people not said here | vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 7 | wheeze | infinitive | some people not said here | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=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:370-minibeasts-in-the-house-house-spiders-silverfish-woodlice-moths-and-cockroaches.lesson:16.
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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, 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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