--- title: The redback spider is a cousin of the black widow and hides in dry s… — Australia's venomous animals and why few people… · tree and pragmatics description: The redback spider is a cousin of the black widow and hides in dry sheltered places, which is why Australians check under outdoor toilet seats and garden chairs. Who acts: redback spider, dry sheltered places, Australians. 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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 (redback spider, dry sheltered places, Australians), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:166-australias-venomous-animals-and-why-few-people-die.lesson:14 # text = The redback spider is a cousin of the black widow and hides in dry sheltered places, which is why Australians check under outdoor toilet seats and garden chairs. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 166-australias-venomous-animals-and-why-few-people-die.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 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 redback redback NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 spider spider NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 4 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 cousin cousin NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 7 of of ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 9 black black ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 widow widow NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nmod _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 hides hide VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ _ 13 in in ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 14 dry dry ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 15 sheltered shelter VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 16 amod _ _ 16 places place NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 obl _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 18 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 20 nsubj _ _ 19 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 cop _ _ 20 why why ADV WRB PronType=Int 16 acl:relcl _ _ 21 Australians Australian PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 22 nsubj _ _ 22 check check VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 ccomp _ _ 23 under under ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 24 outdoor outdoor ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 25 toilet toilet NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 compound _ _ 26 seats seat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 obl _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 28 garden garden NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 compound _ _ 29 chairs chair NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 conj _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | the redback spider | a cousin | | | | of the black widow | tree rules | | 2 | **hide** | present | the redback spider *not said here* | | | dry sheltered places | | | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in place=Location | | 3 | **shelter** | participle | | | | | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **is** | present | dry sheltered places | | | | | why *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **check** | present | Australians | | | outdoor toilet seats and garden chairs | | | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent under seat=Location | 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:biology:166-australias-venomous-animals-and-why-few-people-die.lesson:14`. **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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