Spiders, snakes and wild neighbours, sentence 11

The idea that we swallow spiders in our sleep is a myth; spiders avoid sleeping people, who vibrate and breathe.

Who acts: we, idea, spiders, sleeping people, our · What happens: swallow, be, avoid, sleep, vibrate, breathe · To what, where: spiders, sleep, myth, sleeping people

This is a sentence of the lesson «Spiders, snakes and wild neighbours» of the everyday 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 (we, idea, spiders, sleeping 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 idea	det
2	idea	idea	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 myth	nsubj
3	that	that	SCONJ	_	5 swallow	mark
4	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 swallow	nsubj
5	swallow	swallow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 idea	acl:relcl
6	spiders	spider	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 swallow	obj
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 sleep	case
8	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 sleep	nmod:poss
9	sleep	sleep	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 swallow	obl
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 myth	cop
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 myth	det
12	myth	myth	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 myth	punct
14	spiders	spider	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 avoid	nsubj
15	avoid	avoid	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 myth	parataxis
16	sleeping	sleep	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 people	amod
17	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 avoid	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 vibrate	punct
19	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 vibrate	nsubj
20	vibrate	vibrate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 people	acl:relcl
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 breathe	cc
22	breathe	breathe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 vibrate	conj
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 myth	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	swallow	present	we	spiders	our sleep	vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spider=Patient
2	is a	present	the idea	a myth		tree rules
3	avoid	present	spiders	sleeping people		vn avoid-52 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent people=Location
4	sleep	gerund				vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	vibrate	present	sleeping people			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
6	breathe	present	sleeping people not said here			vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	sleep		our			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:everyday:069-spiders-snakes-and-wild-neighbours.lesson:11.

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 ×1, R8-pos-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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