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title: Spiders in homes eat flies, mosquitoes and other pests, and all the… — Spider-Man: real spider senses, climbing and bites · tree and pragmatics
description: Spiders in homes eat flies, mosquitoes and other pests, and all the spiders in the world eat hundreds of millions of tonnes of insects a year. Who acts: Spiders. A sentence of the lesson «Spider-Man: real spider senses, climbing and bites» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its depe
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# Spider-Man: real spider senses, climbing and bites, sentence 14

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Spiders in homes eat flies, mosquitoes and other pests, and all the spiders in the world eat hundreds of millions of tonnes of insects a year.

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**Who acts:** Spiders · **What happens:** eat · **To what, where:** flies, hundreds

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Spider-Man: real spider senses, climbing and bites» of the biology 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 (Spiders), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:148-spider-man-real-spider-senses-climbing-and-bites.lesson:14
# text = Spiders in homes eat flies, mosquitoes and other pests, and all the spiders in the world eat hundreds of millions of tonnes of insects a year.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 148-spider-man-real-spider-senses-climbing-and-bites.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	Spiders	spider	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	homes	home	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	nmod	_	_
4	eat	eat	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	flies	fly	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	mosquitoes	mosquito	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	pests	pest	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
13	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	15	det:predet	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	spiders	spider	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nsubj	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
19	eat	eat	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
20	hundreds	hundred	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obj	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	millions	million	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nmod	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	tonnes	tonne	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nmod	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	insects	insect	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nmod	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl:unmarked	_	_
29	.	.	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 | **eat** | present | Spiders in homes | flies and mosquitoes and other pests |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fly=Patient |
| 2 | **eat** | present | all spiders in the world | hundreds of millions of tonnes of insects |  |  | year |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hundred=Patient |

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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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**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.

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