--- title: Swallowing eight spiders a year in your sleep is a myth: a big, warm… — Spiders, scorpions and other eight-legged creatu… · tree and pragmatics description: Swallowing eight spiders a year in your sleep is a myth: a big, warm, breathing sleeper is a place spiders keep away from. Who acts: Swallowing, big warm breathing sleeper, spiders, your. 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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 (Swallowing, big warm breathing sleeper, spiders, your), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:038-spiders-scorpions-and-eight-legged-creatures.lesson:9 # text = Swallowing eight spiders a year in your sleep is a myth: a big, warm, breathing sleeper is a place spiders keep away from. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 038-spiders-scorpions-and-eight-legged-creatures.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 Swallowing swallow VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 11 csubj _ _ 2 eight eight NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 3 nummod _ _ 3 spiders spider NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 obj _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 year year NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl:unmarked _ _ 6 in in ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 8 nmod:poss _ _ 8 sleep sleep NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ _ 9 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 cop _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 myth myth NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 12 : : PUNCT : _ 11 punct _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 14 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 16 warm warm ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:conj 17 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 18 breathing breathe VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 19 amod _ _ 19 sleeper sleeper NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nsubj _ _ 20 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 cop _ _ 21 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 place place NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 parataxis _ _ 23 spiders spider NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 nsubj _ _ 24 keep keep VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 acl:relcl _ _ 25 away away ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 26 from from ADP IN _ 24 advmod _ _ 27 . . PUNCT . _ 11 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 | **swallow** | gerund | | eight spiders | | your sleep | year | | vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spider=Patient | | 2 | **is a** | present | Swallowing | a myth | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **breathe** | gerund | | | | | | | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **is a** | present | a big warm breathing sleeper | a place | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **keep away** | present | spiders | a place *not said here* | | | | away *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Theme | | 6 | **sleep** | | your | | | | | | 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:038-spiders-scorpions-and-eight-legged-creatures.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): 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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