--- title: There is no evidence that people swallow spiders in their sleep; a s… — Animal builders: spiders' webs and silk · tree and pragmatics description: There is no evidence that people swallow spiders in their sleep; a sleeping person breathes, snores and moves, which spiders avoid, and the «fact» spread without proof. Who acts: evidence, people, sleeping person, spiders. 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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 (evidence, people, sleeping person, spiders), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:244-animal-builders-spiders-webs-and-silk.lesson:15 # text = There is no evidence that people swallow spiders in their sleep; a sleeping person breathes, snores and moves, which spiders avoid, and the «fact» spread without proof. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 244-animal-builders-spiders-webs-and-silk.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 ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 There there PRON EX PronType=Dem 2 expl _ _ 2 is be VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 4 det _ _ 4 evidence evidence NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 5 that that SCONJ IN _ 7 mark _ _ 6 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nsubj _ _ 7 swallow swallow VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 acl _ _ 8 spiders spider NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obj _ _ 9 in in ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 11 nmod:poss _ _ 11 sleep sleep NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 12 ; ; PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 14 sleeping sleeping ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 person person NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ _ 16 breathes breathe VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj 17 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 18 snores snore VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 conj _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 20 moves move VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 conj _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 22 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 24 obj _ _ 23 spiders spider NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 nsubj _ _ 24 avoid avoid VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 parataxis _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 28 « « ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 29 fact fact NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nsubj _ _ 30 » » PUNCT '' _ 29 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=29:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_ 31 spread spread VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 32 without without ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 33 proof proof NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obl _ _ 34 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#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 | **be** | present | no evidence | | | there | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **swallow** | present | people | spiders | | people's sleep | | | vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spider=Patient | | 3 | **breathe** | present | a sleeping person | | | | | | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **snore** | present | a sleeping person *not said here* | | | | | | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **move** | present | a sleeping person *not said here* | | | | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **avoid** | present | spiders | | | | | | vn avoid-52 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent which=Location | | 7 | **spread** | past | the « fact | | | | | without proof | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 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:244-animal-builders-spiders-webs-and-silk.lesson:15`. **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, R8-pos-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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