Minibeasts in the house: house spiders, silverfish, woodlice, moths and cockroaches, sentence 3
Many scary stories about house minibeasts are myths, and the best way to keep pests away is not sprays but cleaning crumbs, fixing drips and airing clothes.
Who acts: best way · What happens: be, keep away, not be, clean, fix · To what, where: myths, pests, sprays, drips
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 (best way), 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 | 3 stories | amod |
| 2 | scary | scary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 stories | amod |
| 3 | stories | story | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 minibeasts | nsubj |
| 4 | about | about | ADP | _ | 6 minibeasts | case |
| 5 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 minibeasts | compound |
| 6 | minibeasts | minibeast | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 7 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 myths | cop |
| 8 | myths | myth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 minibeasts | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 sprays | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 sprays | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 way | det |
| 12 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 13 way | amod |
| 13 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 sprays | nsubj |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 keep | mark |
| 15 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 way | acl |
| 16 | pests | pest | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 keep | obj |
| 17 | away | away | ADV | _ | 15 keep | advmod |
| 18 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 sprays | cop |
| 19 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 20 sprays | advmod |
| 20 | sprays | spray | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 minibeasts | conj |
| 21 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 23 crumbs | cc |
| 22 | cleaning | clean | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 20 sprays | conj |
| 23 | crumbs | crumb | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 minibeasts | conj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 fixing | punct |
| 25 | fixing | fix | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 22 cleaning | conj |
| 26 | drips | drip | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 fixing | obj |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 clothes | cc |
| 28 | airing | airing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 clothes | compound |
| 29 | clothes | clothes | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 6 minibeasts | conj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 minibeasts | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | myths | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | keep away | to-infinitive | the best way not said here | pests | away property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pest=Theme | |||
| 3 | not is a | present | the best way | sprays | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | clean | gerund | the best way not said here | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 5 | fix | gerund | the best way not said here | drips | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent drip=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:370-minibeasts-in-the-house-house-spiders-silverfish-woodlice-moths-and-cockroaches.lesson:3.
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 ×3, R6-punct-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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