Small creatures and creepy-crawlies, sentence 10
Earwigs don't seek out ears and can't eat brains; their name probably comes from old folk beliefs.
Who acts: Earwigs, name · What happens: not seek out, not eat, come, name · To what, where: ears, brains, old folk beliefs
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 (Earwigs, name), 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 | Earwigs | earwig | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 seek | nsubj |
| 2 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 seek | aux |
| 3 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 seek | advmod |
| 4 | seek | seek | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | out | out | ADP | _ | 4 seek | compound:prt |
| 6 | ears | ear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 seek | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 eat | cc |
| 8 | ca | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 eat | aux |
| 9 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 eat | advmod |
| 10 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 seek | conj |
| 11 | brains | brain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 eat | obj |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 comes | punct |
| 13 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 name | nmod:poss |
| 14 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 comes | nsubj |
| 15 | probably | probably | ADV | _ | 16 comes | advmod |
| 16 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 seek | parataxis |
| 17 | from | from | ADP | _ | 20 beliefs | case |
| 18 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 beliefs | amod |
| 19 | folk | folk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 beliefs | compound |
| 20 | beliefs | belief | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 comes | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 seek | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not seek out | present · do-support | Earwigs | ears | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ear=Theme | ||||
| 2 | not eat | can | Earwigs not said here | brains | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brain=Patient | ||||
| 3 | come | present | earwigs's name | old folk beliefs | probably property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from belief=Initial_Location | |||
| 4 | name | earwigs = earwig | nom name «communication transitive»: 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:myths:009-small-creatures-and-creepy-crawlies.lesson:10.
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): no change. 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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