--- title: There is no good proof that conkers keep spiders away; a schools' co… — The garden in autumn: colours, conkers, webs and… · tree and pragmatics description: There is no good proof that conkers keep spiders away; a schools' competition tested it and the spiders did not mind the conkers. Who acts: good proof, conkers, competition, spiders. 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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 (good proof, conkers, competition, spiders), 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:9 # text = There is no good proof that conkers keep spiders away; a schools' competition tested it and the spiders did not mind the conkers. # 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): R5-strong ×1 1 There there PRON EX PronType=Dem 2 expl _ _ 2 is be VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 5 det _ _ 4 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 proof proof NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 6 that that SCONJ IN _ 8 mark _ _ 7 conkers conker NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 nsubj _ _ 8 keep keep VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 acl _ _ 9 spiders spider NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obj _ _ 10 away away ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 11 ; ; PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=15:det 13 schools school NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 nmod:poss _ _ 14 ' 's PART POS _ 13 case _ _ 15 competition competition NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ _ 16 tested test VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 17 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 obj _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 spiders spider NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 nsubj _ _ 21 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 23 aux _ _ 22 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 23 advmod _ _ 23 mind mind VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 16 conj _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 conkers conker NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 obj _ _ 26 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=assert | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **be** | present | no good proof | | | there | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **keep away** | present | conkers | spiders | | | | away *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spider=Theme | | 3 | **test** | past | a schools's competition | spider | | | | | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | | 4 | **not** **mind** | past · do-support | the spiders | the conkers | | | | | vn caring-75.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent conker=Theme | 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:9`. **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): R5-strong ×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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