--- title: The idea that people swallow spiders in their sleep is a myth; a sle… — Spiders and other minibeasts under logs and stones · tree and pragmatics description: The idea that people swallow spiders in their sleep is a myth; a sleeping person breathes, snores and has a beating heart, and those vibrations warn spiders away. Who acts: people, idea, sleeping person, vibrations. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (people, idea, sleeping person, vibrations), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:220-spiders-and-other-minibeasts-under-logs-and-stones.lesson:9 # text = The idea that people swallow spiders in their sleep is a myth; a sleeping person breathes, snores and has a beating heart, and those vibrations warn spiders away. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 220-spiders-and-other-minibeasts-under-logs-and-stones.lesson # annotation = 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 ×2 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 idea idea NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nsubj _ _ 3 that that SCONJ IN _ 5 mark _ _ 4 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 5 swallow swallow VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 acl _ _ 6 spiders spider NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obj _ _ 7 in in ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 9 nmod:poss _ _ 9 sleep sleep NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 10 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 cop _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 myth myth NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 13 ; ; PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 15 sleeping sleep VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 16 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=16:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 16 person person NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nsubj _ _ 17 breathes breathe VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=12:conj 18 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 19 snores snore VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 conj _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 21 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 conj _ _ 22 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 23 beating beating NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 compound _ _ 24 heart heart NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obj _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 27 those that DET DT Number=Plur|PronType=Dem 28 det _ _ 28 vibrations vibration NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 nsubj _ _ 29 warn warn VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 conj _ _ 30 spiders spider NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 obj _ _ 31 away away ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ _ 32 . . PUNCT . _ 12 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=assert | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **swallow** | present | people | spiders | | people's sleep | | | vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spider=Patient | | 2 | **is a** | present | the idea | a myth | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **sleep** | gerund | | | | | | | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **breathe** | present | a sleeping person | | | | | | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **snore** | present | a sleeping person *not said here* | | | | | | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **have** | present | a sleeping person *not said here* | a beating heart | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heart=Patient | | 7 | **warn away** *speech: warn* | present | that vibrations | spiders | | | | away *property* | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent spider=Recipient | | 8 | **sleep** | | people | | | | | | nom sleep «state intransitive»: 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](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:biology:220-spiders-and-other-minibeasts-under-logs-and-stones.lesson:9`. **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 ×2. **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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