--- title: A housefly tastes with its feet, spits juices to turn food to liquid… — Insects: butterflies, beetles, flies, mosquitoes… · tree and pragmatics description: A housefly tastes with its feet, spits juices to turn food to liquid and mops it up; it can carry germs from rubbish and dung, so we cover food, and its eyes see movement very fast, which is why it is so hard to swat. Who acts: housefly, we, eyes. 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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 (housefly, we, eyes), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:037-butterflies-beetles-flies-mosquitoes-grasshoppers.lesson:12 # text = A housefly tastes with its feet, spits juices to turn food to liquid and mops it up; it can carry germs from rubbish and dung, so we cover food, and its eyes see movement very fast, which is why it is so hard to swat. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 037-butterflies-beetles-flies-mosquitoes-grasshoppers.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, R5-strong ×3, R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 housefly housefly NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 tastes taste VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 with with ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 6 nmod:poss _ _ 6 feet foot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obl _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=9:punct 8 spits spit VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur 9 juices juice NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:obj 10 to to PART TO _ 11 mark _ _ 11 turn turn VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:acl 12 food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ _ 13 to to ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 liquid liquid NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=11:obl|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 16 mops mop VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 17 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 obj _ _ 18 up up ADP RP _ 16 compound:prt _ _ 19 ; ; PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 20 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 21 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 22 aux _ _ 22 carry carry VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=16:conj 23 germs germ NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 obj _ _ 24 from from ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 rubbish rubbish NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nmod _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 27 dung dung NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 conj _ _ 28 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 29 so so ADV RB _ 31 advmod _ _ 30 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj _ _ 31 cover cover VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 advcl _ _ 32 food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obj _ _ 33 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 35 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 36 nmod:poss _ _ 36 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 37 nsubj _ _ 37 see see VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 conj _ _ 38 movement movement NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 obj _ _ 39 very very ADV RB _ 40 advmod _ _ 40 fast fast ADV RB Degree=Pos 37 advmod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=37:advmod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 41 , , PUNCT , _ 48 punct _ _ 42 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 48 nsubj _ _ 43 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 48 cop _ _ 44 why why ADV WRB PronType=Int 48 advmod _ _ 45 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 48 expl _ _ 46 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 48 cop _ _ 47 so so ADV RB _ 48 advmod _ _ 48 hard hard ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 37 parataxis _ _ 49 to to PART TO _ 50 mark _ _ 50 swat swat VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 48 xcomp _ _ 51 . . PUNCT . _ 3 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 | **taste** | present | a housefly | | | | | with housefly's feet | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 2 | **spit** | present | a housefly *not said here* | juices | | | | | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent juice=Theme | | 3 | **turn** | to-infinitive | a housefly *not said here* | food | | liquid | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent food=Theme to liquid=Trajectory | | 4 | **mop up** | present | a housefly *not said here* | food | | | | | vn wipe\_instr-10.4.2-1 «NP V NP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent it=Initial\_Location | | 5 | **carry** | can | housefly | germs | | rubbish and dung | | | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent germ=Theme from rubbish=Initial\_Location | | 6 | **cover** | present | we | food | | | | | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent food=Destination | | 7 | **see** | present | housefly's eyes | movement | | | | fast *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer movement=Stimulus | | 8 | **is** | present | | | | | | hard *property* | tree rules | | 9 | **swat** | to-infinitive | | | | | | | vn swat-18.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | 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:037-butterflies-beetles-flies-mosquitoes-grasshoppers.lesson:12`. **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, R5-strong ×3, R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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