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title: In autumn many house spiders run across the floor because the males… — Spiders and other minibeasts under logs and stones · tree and pragmatics
description: In autumn many house spiders run across the floor because the males are wandering in search of females. Who acts: many house spiders, males. A sentence of the lesson «Spiders and other minibeasts under logs and stones» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the p
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# Spiders and other minibeasts under logs and stones, sentence 10

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In autumn many house spiders run across the floor because the males are wandering in search of females.

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**Who acts:** many house spiders, males · **What happens:** run, wander, search · **To what, where:** floor, search, females

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Spiders and other minibeasts under logs and stones» 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 (many house spiders, males), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:220-spiders-and-other-minibeasts-under-logs-and-stones.lesson:10
# text = In autumn many house spiders run across the floor because the males are wandering in search of females.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 220-spiders-and-other-minibeasts-under-logs-and-stones.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	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	autumn	autumn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
3	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
4	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	spiders	spider	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
6	run	run	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	across	across	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	floor	floor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	males	male	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
13	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	wandering	wander	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	search	search	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	females	female	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nmod	_	_
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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 | **run** | present | many house spiders |  |  | the floor | autumn |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme across floor=Trajectory |
| 2 | **wander** | present · progressive | the males |  |  | search of females |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in search=Trajectory |
| 3 | **search** |  |  | females |  |  |  |  | nom search «act transitive»: of=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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**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:220-spiders-and-other-minibeasts-under-logs-and-stones.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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