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title: Woodlice breathe with gill-like parts that must stay damp, so they h… — Minibeasts in the house: house spiders, silverfi… · tree and pragmatics
description: Woodlice breathe with gill-like parts that must stay damp, so they hide in wet dark places, and they can take up water through tiny tubes at the back as well as through the mouth. Who acts: Woodlice, gill like parts. A sentence of the lesson «Minibeasts in the house: house spiders, silverfish, woodl
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# Minibeasts in the house: house spiders, silverfish, woodlice, moths and cockroaches, sentence 10

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Woodlice breathe with gill-like parts that must stay damp, so they hide in wet dark places, and they can take up water through tiny tubes at the back as well as through the mouth.

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**Who acts:** Woodlice, gill like parts · **What happens:** breathe, stay, hide, take up · **To what, where:** wet dark places, water, tiny tubes

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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 (Woodlice, gill like parts), 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:10
# text = Woodlice breathe with gill-like parts that must stay damp, so they hide in wet dark places, and they can take up water through tiny tubes at the back as well as through the mouth.
# 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): R8-pos-agree ×2
1	Woodlice	Woodlice	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	breathe	breathe	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=0:root|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin
3	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
4	gill	gill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	10	punct	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=10:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_
6	like	like	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	parts	part	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
8	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	10	nsubj	_	_
9	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	stay	stay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	acl:relcl	_	_
11	damp	damp	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	xcomp	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	so	so	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
14	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	hide	hide	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	advcl	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	wet	wet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
18	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	places	place	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
22	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
23	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
25	up	up	ADP	RP	_	24	compound:prt	_	_
26	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
27	through	through	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	tiny	tiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	tubes	tube	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obl	_	_
30	at	at	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	back	back	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	_
33	as	as	ADV	RB	ExtPos=CCONJ	38	cc	_	_
34	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	33	fixed	_	_
35	as	as	ADP	IN	_	33	fixed	_	_
36	through	through	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	mouth	mouth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	conj	_	_
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **breathe** | present | Woodlice |  |  |  |  | with gill like parts | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **stay** | must | gill like parts |  |  |  |  | damp *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **hide** | present | woodlice |  |  | wet dark places |  |  | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in place=Location |
| 4 | **take up** | can | woodlice | water |  | tiny tubes at the back |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Theme |

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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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**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:370-minibeasts-in-the-house-house-spiders-silverfish-woodlice-moths-and-cockroaches.lesson:10`.

**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): 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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