Small creatures and creepy-crawlies, sentence 7
None of the creatures called "daddy longlegs" is dangerous to people; cellar spiders' venom is weak for us, they very rarely bite, and they even eat other spiders.
Who acts: creatures, None, venom, flatworms · What happens: call, be, bite, eat · To what, where: daddy longlegs, other spiders · 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 (creatures, None, venom, flatworms), 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 | None | none | PRON | PronType=Neg | 11 dangerous | nsubj |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 creatures | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 creatures | det |
| 4 | creatures | creature | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 None | nmod |
| 5 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 creatures | acl |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 longlegs | punct |
| 7 | daddy | daddy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 longlegs | compound |
| 8 | longlegs | longleg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 called | xcomp |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 longlegs | punct |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 dangerous | cop |
| 11 | dangerous | dangerous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 people | case |
| 13 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 dangerous | obl |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 dangerous | punct |
| 15 | cellar | cellar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 spiders | compound |
| 16 | spiders | spider | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 venom | nmod:poss |
| 17 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 16 spiders | case |
| 18 | venom | venom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 weak | nsubj |
| 19 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 weak | cop |
| 20 | weak | weak | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 dangerous | parataxis |
| 21 | for | for | ADP | _ | 22 us | case |
| 22 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 weak | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 bite | punct |
| 24 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 bite | nsubj |
| 25 | very | very | ADV | _ | 26 rarely | advmod |
| 26 | rarely | rarely | ADV | _ | 27 bite | advmod |
| 27 | bite | bite | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 weak | parataxis |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 eat | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 eat | cc |
| 30 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 eat | nsubj |
| 31 | even | even | ADV | _ | 32 eat | advmod |
| 32 | eat | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 bite | conj |
| 33 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 spiders | amod |
| 34 | spiders | spider | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 eat | obj |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 dangerous | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | participle | the creatures not said here | daddy longlegs | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | is | present | None | to people; dangerous property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is | present | cellar spiders's venom | for us; weak property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | bite | present | flatworms = flatworm | rarely property | vn swat-18.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | eat | present | flatworms = flatworm | other spiders | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spider=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:7.
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 ×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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