--- title: Both adult ladybirds and their spiky larvae eat aphids, and one lady… — The garden in summer: flowers, aphids, ladybirds… · tree and pragmatics description: Both adult ladybirds and their spiky larvae eat aphids, and one ladybird is reported to eat thousands of aphids in its life, so gardeners welcome them as free pest control. Who acts: adult ladybirds, gardeners. 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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 (adult ladybirds, gardeners), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:334-the-garden-in-summer-flowers-aphids-ladybirds-and-flying-ant-day.lesson:7 # text = Both adult ladybirds and their spiky larvae eat aphids, and one ladybird is reported to eat thousands of aphids in its life, so gardeners welcome them as free pest control. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 334-the-garden-in-summer-flowers-aphids-ladybirds-and-flying-ant-day.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): R1-cc-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Both both DET DT PronType=Tot 3 det _ _ 2 adult adult ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 ladybirds ladybird NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 nsubj _ _ 4 and and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=3:cc 5 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 7 nmod:poss _ _ 6 spiky spiky ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 larvae larva NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 conj _ _ 8 eat eat VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 aphids aphid NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obj _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 12 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 13 nummod _ _ 13 ladybird ladybird NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nsubj:pass _ _ 14 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 aux:pass _ _ 15 reported report VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 8 conj _ _ 16 to to PART TO _ 17 mark _ _ 17 eat eat VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 15 xcomp _ _ 18 thousands thousand NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 obj _ _ 19 of of ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 aphids aphid NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 nmod _ _ 21 in in ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 23 nmod:poss _ _ 23 life life NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 25 so so ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ _ 26 gardeners gardener NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 nsubj _ _ 27 welcome welcome VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:conj 28 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 obj _ _ 29 as as ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 30 free free ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 amod _ _ 31 pest pest NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 compound _ _ 32 control control NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obl _ _ 33 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **eat** | present | both adult ladybirds and ladybird's spiky larvae | aphids | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent aphid=Patient | | 2 | **report** | present · passive | | one ladybird | | | | | vn characterize-29.2-1-2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: subject=Theme clause=Attribute | | 3 | **eat** | to-infinitive | | thousands of aphids | | larva's life | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thousand=Patient | | 4 | **welcome** | present | gardeners | aphids *= aphid* | | | | as free pest control | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent they=Theme as control=Attribute | 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:334-the-garden-in-summer-flowers-aphids-ladybirds-and-flying-ant-day.lesson:7`. **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): R1-cc-next ×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. 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