--- title: There is no evidence that people swallow eight spiders a year in the… — Minibeasts in the house: house spiders, silverfi… · tree and pragmatics description: There is no evidence that people swallow eight spiders a year in their sleep, and a breathing, rumbling, warm mouth is a danger signal that spiders avoid. Who acts: evidence, people, breathing rumbling warm mouth, spiders. A sentence of the lesson «Minibeasts in the house: house spiders, silverfish, --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/370-minibeasts-in-the-house-house-spiders-silverfish-woodlice-moths-and-cockroaches/7/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/) / [Minibeasts in the house: house spiders…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/370-minibeasts-in-the-house-house-spiders-silverfish-woodlice-moths-and-cockroaches/) / 7 # Minibeasts in the house: house spiders, silverfish, woodlice, moths and cockroaches, sentence 7 There is no evidence that people swallow eight spiders a year in their sleep, and a breathing, rumbling, warm mouth is a danger signal that spiders avoid. **Who acts:** evidence, people, breathing rumbling warm mouth, spiders · **What happens:** be, swallow, rumble, avoid, sleep · **To what, where:** eight spiders, sleep, danger signal This is a sentence of the lesson «Minibeasts in the house: house spiders, silverfish, woodlice, moths and cockroaches» of the biology 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 (evidence, people, breathing rumbling warm mouth, spiders), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:370-minibeasts-in-the-house-house-spiders-silverfish-woodlice-moths-and-cockroaches.lesson:7 # text = There is no evidence that people swallow eight spiders a year in their sleep, and a breathing, rumbling, warm mouth is a danger signal that spiders avoid. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 370-minibeasts-in-the-house-house-spiders-silverfish-woodlice-moths-and-cockroaches.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): R5-strong ×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 eight eight NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 9 nummod _ _ 9 spiders spider NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obj _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 year year NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nmod:unmarked _ _ 12 in in ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 14 nmod:poss _ _ 14 sleep sleep NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=18:det 18 breathing breathing NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 amod _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 20 rumbling rumble VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 23 amod _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 22 warm warm ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 23 mouth mouth NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nsubj _ _ 24 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 cop _ _ 25 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 26 danger danger NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 compound _ _ 27 signal signal NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 conj _ _ 28 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 30 obj _ _ 29 spiders spider NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 nsubj _ _ 30 avoid avoid VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 acl:relcl _ _ 31 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | 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 | eight spiders a year | | spiders's sleep | | | vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spider=Patient | | 3 | **rumble** | gerund | | | | | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **is a** | present | a breathing rumbling warm mouth | a danger signal | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **avoid** | present | spiders | a danger signal | | | | | vn avoid-52 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent that=Location | | 6 | **sleep** | | spiders *= spider* | | | | | | 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:370-minibeasts-in-the-house-house-spiders-silverfish-woodlice-moths-and-cockroaches.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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