--- title: Dust mites are about a quarter of a millimetre long, eat flakes of d… — Minibeasts in the house: house spiders, silverfi… · tree and pragmatics description: Dust mites are about a quarter of a millimetre long, eat flakes of dead skin and have eight legs because they are relatives of spiders; their droppings can make some people sneeze and wheeze. Who acts: Dust mites, mites, droppings, people. 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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 (Dust mites, mites, droppings, people), 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:16 # text = Dust mites are about a quarter of a millimetre long, eat flakes of dead skin and have eight legs because they are relatives of spiders; their droppings can make some people sneeze and wheeze. # 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, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Dust dust NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 mites mite NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nsubj _ _ 3 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 4 about about ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 quarter quarter NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 7 of of ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 millimetre millimetre NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nmod _ _ 10 long long ADV RB Degree=Pos 6 advmod _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=10:punct 12 eat eat VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 conj _ _ 13 flakes flake NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 obj _ _ 14 of of ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 dead dead ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 skin skin NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nmod _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 18 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 conj _ _ 19 eight eight NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 20 nummod _ _ 20 legs leg NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obj _ _ 21 because because SCONJ IN _ 24 mark _ _ 22 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 23 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 cop _ _ 24 relatives relative NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 advcl _ _ 25 of of ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 spiders spider NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 nmod _ _ 27 ; ; PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 28 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 29 nmod:poss _ _ 29 droppings dropping NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 nsubj _ _ 30 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 31 aux _ _ 31 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 conj _ _ 32 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 33 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=34:det 33 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 obj _ _ 34 sneeze sneeze VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 31 xcomp _ _ 35 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 36 wheeze wheeze VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 34 conj _ _ 37 . . PUNCT . _ 12 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | Dust mites | a quarter | | | | of a millimetre; about, long *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **eat** | infinitive | Dust mites *not said here* | flakes of dead skin | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flake=Patient | | 3 | **have** | present | Dust mites *not said here* | eight legs | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leg=Patient | | 4 | **is a** | present | mites *= mite* | relatives | | | | of spiders | tree rules | | 5 | **make** | can | mites's droppings | some people | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **sneeze** | infinitive | some people *not said here* | | | | | | vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **wheeze** | infinitive | some people *not said here* | | | | | | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: 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:370-minibeasts-in-the-house-house-spiders-silverfish-woodlice-moths-and-cockroaches.lesson:16`. **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, R7-rel-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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