Minibeasts in the house: house spiders, silverfish, woodlice, moths and cockroaches, sentence 7
There is no evidence that people swallow eight spiders a year in their sleep, and a breathing, rumbling, warm mouth is a danger signal that spiders avoid.
Who acts: evidence, people, breathing rumbling warm mouth, spiders · What happens: be, swallow, rumble, avoid, sleep · To what, where: eight spiders, sleep, danger signal
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 (evidence, people, breathing rumbling warm mouth, 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 | eight | eight | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 spiders | nummod |
| 9 | spiders | spider | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 swallow | obj |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 year | det |
| 11 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 spiders | nmod:unmarked |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 sleep | case |
| 13 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 sleep | nmod:poss |
| 14 | sleep | sleep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 swallow | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 breathing | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 signal | cc |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 mouth | det |
| 18 | breathing | breathing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 mouth | amod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 rumbling | punct |
| 20 | rumbling | rumble | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 23 mouth | amod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 mouth | punct |
| 22 | warm | warm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 mouth | amod |
| 23 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 signal | nsubj |
| 24 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 signal | cop |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 signal | det |
| 26 | danger | danger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 signal | compound |
| 27 | signal | signal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 is | conj |
| 28 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 30 avoid | obj |
| 29 | spiders | spider | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 avoid | nsubj |
| 30 | avoid | avoid | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 signal | acl:relcl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 is | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | present | no evidence | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | swallow | present | people | eight spiders a year | spiders's sleep | vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spider=Patient | |||
| 3 | rumble | gerund | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | is a | present | a breathing rumbling warm mouth | a danger signal | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | avoid | present | spiders | a danger signal | vn avoid-52 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent that=Location | ||||
| 6 | sleep | spiders = spider | 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:370-minibeasts-in-the-house-house-spiders-silverfish-woodlice-moths-and-cockroaches.lesson:7.
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. 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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