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title: A spider in the bath has usually fallen in and cannot climb out, bec… — Spiders and other minibeasts under logs and stones · tree and pragmatics
description: A spider in the bath has usually fallen in and cannot climb out, because the sides are too smooth; it did not come up the plughole. Who acts: spider, sides. A sentence of the lesson «Spiders and other minibeasts under logs and stones» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its dependenc
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# Spiders and other minibeasts under logs and stones, sentence 8

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A spider in the bath has usually fallen in and cannot climb out, because the sides are too smooth; it did not come up the plughole.

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**Who acts:** spider, sides · **What happens:** fall in, not climb out, be, not come up · **To what, where:** plughole

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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 (spider, sides), 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:8
# text = A spider in the bath has usually fallen in and cannot climb out, because the sides are too smooth; it did not come up the plughole.
# 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): R3-conj-first ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	spider	spider	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	bath	bath	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
7	usually	usually	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	fallen	fall	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
9	in	in	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:compound:prt|HaikuPos=ADP:RP:_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
11	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
12	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	13	advmod	_	_
13	climb	climb	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	conj	_	_
14	out	out	ADP	RP	_	13	compound:prt	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
16	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	sides	side	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nsubj	_	_
19	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
20	too	too	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	smooth	smooth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	advcl	_	_
22	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
23	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
24	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
25	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	26	advmod	_	_
26	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=13:conj
27	up	up	ADP	RP	_	26	compound:prt	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	plughole	plughole	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	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 | **fall in** | present · perfect | a spider in the bath |  |  |  |  | usually *property* | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **climb out** | can | a spider in the bath *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | present | the sides |  |  |  |  | smooth *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **not** **come up** | past · do-support | spider | the plughole |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location plughole=Theme |

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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:8`.

**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): R3-conj-first ×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/).

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