Spiders, scorpions and other eight-legged creatures, sentence 9

Swallowing eight spiders a year in your sleep is a myth: a big, warm, breathing sleeper is a place spiders keep away from.

Who acts: Swallowing, big warm breathing sleeper, spiders, your · What happens: swallow, be, breathe, keep away, sleep · To what, where: eight spiders, sleep, myth, place

This is a sentence of the lesson «Spiders, scorpions and other eight-legged 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 (Swallowing, big warm breathing sleeper, spiders, your), 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	Swallowing	swallow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 myth	csubj
2	eight	eight	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 spiders	nummod
3	spiders	spider	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Swallowing	obj
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 year	det
5	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Swallowing	obl:unmarked
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 sleep	case
7	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 sleep	nmod:poss
8	sleep	sleep	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Swallowing	obl
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 myth	cop
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 myth	det
11	myth	myth	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
12	:	:	PUNCT	_	11 myth	punct
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 sleeper	det
14	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 sleeper	amod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 sleeper	punct
16	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 sleeper	amod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 sleeper	punct
18	breathing	breathe	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	19 sleeper	amod
19	sleeper	sleeper	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 place	nsubj
20	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 place	cop
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 place	det
22	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 myth	parataxis
23	spiders	spider	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 keep	nsubj
24	keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 place	acl:relcl
25	away	away	ADV	_	24 keep	advmod
26	from	from	ADP	_	24 keep	advmod
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 myth	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	swallow	gerund		eight spiders	your sleep	year		vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spider=Patient
2	is a	present	Swallowing	a myth				tree rules
3	breathe	gerund						vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	is a	present	a big warm breathing sleeper	a place				tree rules
5	keep away	present	spiders	a place not said here			away property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Theme
6	sleep		your					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:038-spiders-scorpions-and-eight-legged-creatures.lesson:9.

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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