Small creatures and creepy-crawlies, sentence 2

Minibeasts are small, fast and strange, so we make up stories about them, and the scarier the story, the faster it spreads round the playground.

Who acts: Minibeasts, we, worm · What happens: be, make up, spread · To what, where: stories, playground

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 (Minibeasts, we, worm), 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	Minibeasts	minibeast	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 small	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 small	cop
3	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 fast	punct
5	fast	fast	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 small	conj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 strange	cc
7	strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 small	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 make	punct
9	so	so	ADV	_	11 make	advmod
10	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 make	nsubj
11	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 small	parataxis
12	up	up	ADP	_	11 make	compound:prt
13	stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 make	obj
14	about	about	ADP	_	15 them	case
15	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 stories	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 scarier	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 scarier	cc
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 scarier	det
19	scarier	scary	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	11 make	conj
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 story	det
21	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 scarier	nsubj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 spreads	punct
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 faster	det
24	faster	fast	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	26 spreads	advcl
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 spreads	nsubj
26	spreads	spread	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 scarier	conj
27	round	round	ADP	_	29 playground	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 playground	det
29	playground	playground	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 spreads	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 small	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	present	Minibeasts			small property	tree rules
2	be		Minibeasts not said here				tree rules
3	be		Minibeasts not said here				tree rules
4	make up	present	we	stories		about Minibeasts = minibeast	vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme story=Pivot
5	spread	present	worm		the playground		vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme round playground=Destination

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:2.

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): R2-punct-next ×1, R7-rel-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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