--- title: Minibeasts are small, fast and strange, so we make up stories about… — Small creatures and creepy-crawlies · tree and pragmatics description: Minibeasts are small, fast and strange, so we make up stories about them, and the scarier the story, the faster it spreads round the playground. Who acts: Minibeasts, we, worm. 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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 (Minibeasts, we, worm), 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:2 # text = Minibeasts are small, fast and strange, so we make up stories about them, and the scarier the story, the faster it spreads round the playground. # 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Minibeasts minibeast NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 2 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 cop _ _ 3 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 4 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 5 fast fast ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 conj _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 7 strange strange ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 conj _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 9 so so ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 10 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 11 make make VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 12 up up ADP RP _ 11 compound:prt _ _ 13 stories story NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 obj _ _ 14 about about ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 nmod _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 scarier scary ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 11 conj _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 story story NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nsubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=19:obj 22 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=19:punct 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 faster fast ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 26 advcl _ _ 25 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 26 spreads spread VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 conj _ _ 27 round round ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 playground playground NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obl _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 3 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 | **is** | present | Minibeasts | | | | | small *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **be** | | Minibeasts *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **be** | | Minibeasts *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **make up** | present | we | stories | | | | about Minibeasts *= minibeast* | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme story=Pivot | | 5 | **spread** | present | worm | | | the playground | | | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme round playground=Destination | 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:2`. **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): R2-punct-next ×1, R7-rel-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: [Small creatures and creepy-crawlies, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/9-small-creatures-and-creepy-crawlies/1/) - next →: [Small creatures and creepy-crawlies, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/9-small-creatures-and-creepy-crawlies/3/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/9-small-creatures-and-creepy-crawlies/)