--- title: The big spiders seen indoors in autumn are mostly male house spiders… — The garden in autumn: colours, conkers, webs and… · tree and pragmatics description: The big spiders seen indoors in autumn are mostly male house spiders wandering in search of a partner; they were already living in the house, hidden, and are harmless to people. Who acts: big spiders, male house spiders, webs. 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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 (big spiders, male house spiders, webs), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:335-the-garden-in-autumn-colours-conkers-webs-and-buried-nuts.lesson:11 # text = The big spiders seen indoors in autumn are mostly male house spiders wandering in search of a partner; they were already living in the house, hidden, and are harmless to people. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 335-the-garden-in-autumn-colours-conkers-webs-and-buried-nuts.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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 spiders spider NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 nsubj _ _ 4 seen see VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 acl _ _ 5 indoors indoors ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 6 in in ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 autumn autumn NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 8 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 cop _ _ 9 mostly mostly ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 10 male male ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 11 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 compound _ _ 12 spiders spider NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 13 wandering wander VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 12 acl _ _ 14 in in ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 search search NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 16 of of ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 partner partner NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nmod _ _ 19 ; ; PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 20 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 21 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 23 aux _ _ 22 already already ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 23 living live VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 12 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=12:conj 24 in in ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=32:punct 28 hidden hidden VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 23 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=23:advcl 29 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 31 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 32 cop _ _ 32 harmless harmless ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 conj _ _ 33 to to ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 34 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 obl _ _ 35 . . PUNCT . _ 12 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 | **see** | participle | | the big spiders *not said here* | | | autumn | indoors *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 2 | **is a** | present | the big spiders | male house spiders | | | | mostly *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **wander** | gerund | male house spiders *not said here* | | | search of a partner | | | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in search=Trajectory | | 4 | **live** | past · progressive | webs *= web* | | | the house | | | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in house=Location | | 5 | **hidden** | participle | webs *= web* *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **is** | present | webs *= web* *not said here* | | | | | to people; harmless *property* | tree rules | | 7 | **search** | | | a partner | | | | | nom search «act transitive»: of=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:335-the-garden-in-autumn-colours-conkers-webs-and-buried-nuts.lesson:11`. **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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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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