Small creatures and creepy-crawlies, sentence 3
Most of the stories fall apart when you look closely: a cut worm usually loses its tail end, earwigs got their spooky name from old folk beliefs, and daddy longlegs are harmless to people.
Who acts: Most, you, cut worm, earwigs, daddy longlegs, stories · What happens: fall apart, look, lose, get, be, name · To what, where: tail end, spooky name, 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 (Most, you, cut worm, 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 | Most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 5 fall | nsubj |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 stories | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 stories | det |
| 4 | stories | story | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Most | nmod |
| 5 | fall | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | apart | apart | ADV | _ | 5 fall | advmod |
| 7 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 9 look | advmod |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 look | nsubj |
| 9 | look | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 fall | advcl |
| 10 | closely | closely | ADV | _ | 9 look | advmod |
| 11 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 9 look | punct |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 worm | det |
| 13 | cut | cut | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 worm | amod |
| 14 | worm | worm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 loses | nsubj |
| 15 | usually | usually | ADV | _ | 16 loses | advmod |
| 16 | loses | lose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 fall | parataxis |
| 17 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 end | nmod:poss |
| 18 | tail | tail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 end | compound |
| 19 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 loses | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 got | punct |
| 21 | earwigs | earwig | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 got | nsubj |
| 22 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 loses | conj |
| 23 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 name | nmod:poss |
| 24 | spooky | spooky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 name | amod |
| 25 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 got | obj |
| 26 | from | from | ADP | _ | 29 beliefs | case |
| 27 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 beliefs | amod |
| 28 | folk | folk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 beliefs | compound |
| 29 | beliefs | belief | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 got | obl |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 harmless | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 harmless | cc |
| 32 | daddy | daddy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 longlegs | compound |
| 33 | longlegs | longleg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 harmless | nsubj |
| 34 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 35 harmless | cop |
| 35 | harmless | harmless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 got | conj |
| 36 | to | to | ADP | _ | 37 people | case |
| 37 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 harmless | obl |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 fall | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fall apart | present | Most of the stories | apart property | vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | look | present | you | closely property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | lose | present | a cut worm | worm's tail end | usually property | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent end=Eventuality | |||
| 4 | get | past | earwigs | stories's spooky name | old folk beliefs | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent name=Theme from belief=Source | |||
| 5 | is | present | daddy longlegs | to people; harmless property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | name | stories = story | 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:3.
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. 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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