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title: Earwigs don't seek out ears and can't eat brains; their name probabl… — Small creatures and creepy-crawlies · tree and pragmatics
description: Earwigs don't seek out ears and can't eat brains; their name probably comes from old folk beliefs. Who acts: Earwigs, name. 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 every clause.
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# Small creatures and creepy-crawlies, sentence 10

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Earwigs don't seek out ears and can't eat brains; their name probably comes from old folk beliefs.

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**Who acts:** Earwigs, name · **What happens:** not seek out, not eat, come, name · **To what, where:** ears, brains, old folk beliefs

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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 (Earwigs, name), 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:10
# text = Earwigs don't seek out ears and can't eat brains; their name probably comes from old folk beliefs.
# 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): no change
1	Earwigs	earwig	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
2	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	seek	seek	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	out	out	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
6	ears	ear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
8	ca	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
9	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	10	advmod	_	_
10	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
11	brains	brain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
12	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
15	probably	probably	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	comes	come	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
17	from	from	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
19	folk	folk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	beliefs	belief	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	_
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **seek out** | present · do-support | Earwigs | ears |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ear=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **eat** | can | Earwigs *not said here* | brains |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brain=Patient |
| 3 | **come** | present | earwigs's name |  |  | old folk beliefs |  | probably *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from belief=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **name** |  | earwigs *= earwig* |  |  |  |  |  | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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.

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**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:10`.

**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): no change. **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/).

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