--- title: Free worm!" Lottie's brother whispers at bedtime that earwigs crawl… — Small creatures and creepy-crawlies · tree and pragmatics description: Free worm!" Lottie's brother whispers at bedtime that earwigs crawl into your ears at night and munch your brain. Who acts: brother, earwigs. A sentence of the lesson «Small creatures and creepy-crawlies» of the myths course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of eve --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/9-small-creatures-and-creepy-crawlies/1/) [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/) / [Myths](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/) / [Small creatures and creepy-crawlies](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/9-small-creatures-and-creepy-crawlies/) / 1 # Small creatures and creepy-crawlies, sentence 1 Free worm!" Lottie's brother whispers at bedtime that earwigs crawl into your ears at night and munch your brain. **Who acts:** brother, earwigs · **What happens:** whisper, crawl, munch · **To what, where:** bedtime, ears, brain · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «Small creatures and creepy-crawlies» of the myths 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 (brother, earwigs), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:myths:009-small-creatures-and-creepy-crawlies.lesson:1 # text = Free worm!" Lottie's brother whispers at bedtime that earwigs crawl into your ears at night and munch your brain. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = myths # lesson = 009-small-creatures-and-creepy-crawlies.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 ×3 1 Free free ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 worm worm NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 3 ! ! PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ 4 " " PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ _ 5 Lottie Lottie PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 nmod:poss _ _ 6 's 's PART POS _ 5 case _ _ 7 brother brother NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 8 whispers whisper VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 9 at at ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 bedtime bedtime NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 11 that that SCONJ IN _ 13 mark _ _ 12 earwigs earwig NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 nsubj _ _ 13 crawl crawl VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 ccomp _ _ 14 into into ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 16 nmod:poss _ _ 16 ears ear NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:obl 17 at at ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 night night NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:obl 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 20 munch munch VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 21 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 22 nmod:poss _ _ 22 brain brain NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obj _ _ 23 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed voice=narrator, act=narrate | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **whisper** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | present | Lottie's brother | | | bedtime | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **crawl** *in a quote* | present | earwigs | | | your ears | night | | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into ear=Destination | | 3 | **munch** *in a quote* | present | earwigs *not said here* | your brain | | | | | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brain=Patient | 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:myths:009-small-creatures-and-creepy-crawlies.lesson:1`. **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 ×3. **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: [Small creatures and creepy-crawlies, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/9-small-creatures-and-creepy-crawlies/0/) - next →: [Small creatures and creepy-crawlies, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/9-small-creatures-and-creepy-crawlies/2/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/9-small-creatures-and-creepy-crawlies/)