--- title: The idea that we swallow spiders in our sleep is a myth; spiders avo… — Spiders, snakes and wild neighbours · tree and pragmatics description: The idea that we swallow spiders in our sleep is a myth; spiders avoid sleeping people, who vibrate and breathe. Who acts: we, idea, spiders, sleeping people. 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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 (we, idea, spiders, sleeping people), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:069-spiders-snakes-and-wild-neighbours.lesson:11 # text = The idea that we swallow spiders in our sleep is a myth; spiders avoid sleeping people, who vibrate and breathe. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 069-spiders-snakes-and-wild-neighbours.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 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 _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:obj|HaikuPos=PRON:WDT:PronType=Rel 4 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 5 swallow swallow VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 acl:relcl _ _ 6 spiders spider NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obj _ _ 7 in in ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 our our PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|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 , _ 12 punct _ _ 14 spiders spider NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 nsubj _ _ 15 avoid avoid VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 parataxis _ _ 16 sleeping sleep VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 17 amod _ _ 17 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 obj _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 19 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 20 nsubj _ _ 20 vibrate vibrate VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 acl:relcl _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 22 breathe breathe VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=20:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 23 . . PUNCT . _ 12 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **swallow** | present | we | spiders | | our sleep | | | vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spider=Patient | | 2 | **is a** | present | the idea | a myth | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **avoid** | present | spiders | sleeping people | | | | | vn avoid-52 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent people=Location | | 4 | **sleep** | gerund | | | | | | | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **vibrate** | present | sleeping people | | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 6 | **breathe** | present | sleeping people *not said here* | | | | | | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **sleep** | | our | | | | | | 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:everyday:069-spiders-snakes-and-wild-neighbours.lesson:11`. **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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Spiders, snakes and wild neighbours, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/69-spiders-snakes-and-wild-neighbours/10/) - next →: [Spiders, snakes and wild neighbours, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/69-spiders-snakes-and-wild-neighbours/12/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/69-spiders-snakes-and-wild-neighbours/)