Small creatures and creepy-crawlies, sentence 1
Free worm!" Lottie's brother whispers at bedtime that earwigs crawl into your ears at night and munch your brain.
Who acts: brother, earwigs · What happens: whisper, crawl, munch · To what, where: bedtime, ears, brain · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Small creatures and creepy-crawlies» of the myths 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 (brother, earwigs), 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 | Free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 worm | amod |
| 2 | worm | worm | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 worm | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 worm | punct |
| 5 | Lottie | Lottie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 brother | nmod:poss |
| 6 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 5 Lottie | case |
| 7 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 whispers | nsubj |
| 8 | whispers | whisper | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 worm | conj |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 bedtime | case |
| 10 | bedtime | bedtime | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 whispers | obl |
| 11 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 crawl | mark |
| 12 | earwigs | earwig | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 crawl | nsubj |
| 13 | crawl | crawl | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 whispers | ccomp |
| 14 | into | into | ADP | _ | 16 ears | case |
| 15 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 ears | nmod:poss |
| 16 | ears | ear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 crawl | obl |
| 17 | at | at | ADP | _ | 18 night | case |
| 18 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 crawl | obl |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 munch | cc |
| 20 | munch | munch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 crawl | conj |
| 21 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 brain | nmod:poss |
| 22 | brain | brain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 munch | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 worm | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed voice=narrator, act=narrate
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | whisper speech: assert in a quote | present | Lottie's brother | bedtime | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | crawl in a quote | present | earwigs | your ears | night | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into ear=Destination | |||
| 3 | munch in a quote | present | earwigs not said here | your brain | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brain=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:myths:009-small-creatures-and-creepy-crawlies.lesson:1.
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. 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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