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title: Your home is a small wild world: spiders hunt in the corners, silver… — Minibeasts in the house: house spiders, silverfi… · tree and pragmatics
description: Your home is a small wild world: spiders hunt in the corners, silverfish nibble old books, woodlice hide under flowerpots, moth caterpillars munch wool and dust mites live in your bed. Who acts: home, spiders, silverfish, woodlice. A sentence of the lesson «Minibeasts in the house: house spiders, si
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# Minibeasts in the house: house spiders, silverfish, woodlice, moths and cockroaches, sentence 0

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Your home is a small wild world: spiders hunt in the corners, silverfish nibble old books, woodlice hide under flowerpots, moth caterpillars munch wool and dust mites live in your bed.

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**Who acts:** home, spiders, silverfish, woodlice, moth caterpillars, mites · **What happens:** be, hunt, nibble, hide, munch, live · **To what, where:** small wild world, corners, old books, flowerpots, wool, bed

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Minibeasts in the house: house spiders, silverfish, woodlice, moths and cockroaches» of the biology course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (home, spiders, silverfish, woodlice), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:370-minibeasts-in-the-house-house-spiders-silverfish-woodlice-moths-and-cockroaches.lesson:0
# text = Your home is a small wild world: spiders hunt in the corners, silverfish nibble old books, woodlice hide under flowerpots, moth caterpillars munch wool and dust mites live in your bed.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 370-minibeasts-in-the-house-house-spiders-silverfish-woodlice-moths-and-cockroaches.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, R6-punct-agree ×1
1	Your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
5	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
6	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
8	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
9	spiders	spider	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
10	hunt	hunt	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	corners	corner	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	silverfish	silverfish	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj	_	_
16	nibble	nibble	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
17	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	books	book	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	woodlice	woodlice	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nsubj	_	_
21	hide	hide	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	_
22	under	under	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	flowerpots	flowerpot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obl	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=26:punct
25	moth	moth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	caterpillars	caterpillar	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	nsubj	_	_
27	munch	munch	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	_
28	wool	wool	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=31:compound
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	dust	dust	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	conj	_	_
31	mites	mite	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obj	_	_
32	live	live	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	31	acl	_	_
33	in	in	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	35	nmod:poss	_	_
35	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	_
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Your home | a small wild world |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **hunt** | present | spiders |  |  | the corners |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent in corner=Location |
| 3 | **nibble** | present | silverfish | old books |  |  |  |  | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent book=Patient |
| 4 | **hide** | present | woodlice |  |  | flowerpots |  |  | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent under flowerpot=Location |
| 5 | **munch** | present | moth caterpillars | wool and dust |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **live** | present | mites *not said here* |  |  | your bed |  |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in bed=Location |

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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.

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**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, R6-punct-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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