--- title: Dust mites are tiny relatives of spiders, with eight legs, that live… — The microscopic world: tardigrades, mites, plank… · tree and pragmatics description: Dust mites are tiny relatives of spiders, with eight legs, that live in beds and carpets and eat flakes of dead skin; their droppings can cause allergies and asthma, and washing bedding hot and airing it keeps them down. Who acts: Dust mites, spiders, droppings. 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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 (Dust mites, spiders, droppings), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:259-the-microscopic-world-tardigrades-mites-plankton-and-other-tiny-creatures.lesson:8 # text = Dust mites are tiny relatives of spiders, with eight legs, that live in beds and carpets and eat flakes of dead skin; their droppings can cause allergies and asthma, and washing bedding hot and airing it keeps them down. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 259-the-microscopic-world-tardigrades-mites-plankton-and-other-tiny-creatures.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): R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×3 1 Dust dust NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 mites mite NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 3 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 4 tiny tiny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 relatives relative NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 6 of of ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 spiders spider NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nmod _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 9 with with ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 eight eight NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 11 nummod _ _ 11 legs leg NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:conj 12 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 13 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 14 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=14:nsubj|HaikuPos=PRON:DT:Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 14 live live VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 acl:relcl _ _ 15 in in ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 beds bed NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 obl _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 18 carpets carpet NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 conj _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 20 eat eat VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=14:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 21 flakes flake NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 obj _ _ 22 of of ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 dead dead ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 24 skin skin NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nmod _ _ 25 ; ; PUNCT : _ 29 punct _ _ 26 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 27 nmod:poss _ _ 27 droppings dropping NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 nsubj _ _ 28 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 29 aux _ _ 29 cause cause VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj 30 allergies allergy NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 obj _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 32 asthma asthma NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 conj _ _ 33 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 41 cc _ _ 35 washing wash VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 41 nsubj _ _ 36 bedding bedding NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=35:obj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBG:Number=Sing 37 hot hot ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 xcomp _ _ 38 and and CCONJ CC _ 39 cc _ _ 39 airing air VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 35 conj _ _ 40 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 39 obj _ _ 41 keeps keep VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 29 conj _ _ 42 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 41 obj _ _ 43 down down ADP RP _ 41 compound:prt _ _ 44 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: neg - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | Dust mites | tiny relatives | | | | of spiders with eight legs | tree rules | | 2 | **live** | present | spiders with eight legs | | | beds and carpets | | | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in bed=Location | | 3 | **eat** | present | spiders with eight legs *not said here* | flakes of dead skin | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flake=Patient | | 4 | **cause** | can | mites's droppings | allergies and asthma | | | | | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition allergy=Patient | | 5 | **wash** | gerund | | bedding | | | | hot *property* | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bedding=Patient | | 6 | **air** | gerund | | bedding | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient | | 7 | **keep down** | present | | allergies *= allergy* | | | | | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient | 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:259-the-microscopic-world-tardigrades-mites-plankton-and-other-tiny-creatures.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): R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×3. **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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