--- title: Find a big spider in the bath and it looks as if it crawled up the p… — Minibeasts in the house: house spiders, silverfi… · tree and pragmatics description: Find a big spider in the bath and it looks as if it crawled up the plughole, but it almost certainly fell in while hunting and cannot climb the slippery sides; a towel ramp lets it out. Who acts: you, it, Most, towel ramp. 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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 (you, it, Most, towel ramp), 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:2 # text = Find a big spider in the bath and it looks as if it crawled up the plughole, but it almost certainly fell in while hunting and cannot climb the slippery sides; a towel ramp lets it out. # 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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Find find VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 spider spider NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 5 in in ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 bath bath NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 9 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 10 looks look VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 conj _ _ 11 as as SCONJ IN _ 14 mark _ _ 12 if if SCONJ IN _ 14 mark _ _ 13 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 14 crawled crawl VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 advcl _ _ 15 up up ADP RP _ 14 compound:prt _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 plughole plughole NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=38:punct 19 but but CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 20 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 21 almost almost ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=23:advmod 22 certainly certainly ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 23 fell fall VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 1 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:conj 24 in in ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=23:compound:prt|HaikuPos=ADP:RP:_ 25 while while SCONJ IN _ 26 mark _ _ 26 hunting hunt VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 23 advcl _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 28 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 30 aux _ _ 29 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 30 advmod _ _ 30 climb climb VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 23 conj _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 32 slippery slippery ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 amod _ _ 33 sides side NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 obj _ _ 34 ; ; PUNCT : _ 38 punct _ _ 35 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 36 towel towel NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 compound _ _ 37 ramp ramp NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 nsubj _ _ 38 lets let VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 advcl _ _ 39 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 38 obj _ _ 40 out out ADP RP _ 38 compound:prt _ _ 41 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: command - act: request - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **find** | imperative | you *not said here* | a big spider | | the bath | | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spider=Topic | | 2 | **look** | present | it | | | | | | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 3 | **crawl up** | past | Most | the plughole | | | | | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location plughole=Theme | | 4 | **fall in** | past | Most | | | | | certainly *property* | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **hunt** | gerund | Most *not said here* | | | | | | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **not** **climb** | can | Most *not said here* | the slippery sides | | | | | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location side=Theme | | 7 | **let out** | present | a towel ramp | Most | | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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:370-minibeasts-in-the-house-house-spiders-silverfish-woodlice-moths-and-cockroaches.lesson:2`. **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 ×2, 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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