--- title: Many scary stories about house minibeasts are myths, and the best wa… — Minibeasts in the house: house spiders, silverfi… · tree and pragmatics description: Many scary stories about house minibeasts are myths, and the best way to keep pests away is not sprays but cleaning crumbs, fixing drips and airing clothes. Who acts: best way. A sentence of the lesson «Minibeasts in the house: house spiders, silverfish, woodlice, moths and cockroaches» of the biolo --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/370-minibeasts-in-the-house-house-spiders-silverfish-woodlice-moths-and-cockroaches/3/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/) / [Minibeasts in the house: house spiders…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/370-minibeasts-in-the-house-house-spiders-silverfish-woodlice-moths-and-cockroaches/) / 3 # Minibeasts in the house: house spiders, silverfish, woodlice, moths and cockroaches, sentence 3 Many scary stories about house minibeasts are myths, and the best way to keep pests away is not sprays but cleaning crumbs, fixing drips and airing clothes. **Who acts:** best way · **What happens:** be, keep away, not be, clean, fix · **To what, where:** myths, pests, sprays, drips 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 (best way), 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:3 # text = Many scary stories about house minibeasts are myths, and the best way to keep pests away is not sprays but cleaning crumbs, fixing drips and airing clothes. # 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 ×3, R6-punct-agree ×1 1 Many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 2 scary scary ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 stories story NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nsubj _ _ 4 about about ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 compound _ _ 6 minibeasts minibeast NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 7 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 cop _ _ 8 myths myth NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 conj _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 12 best good ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 13 amod _ _ 13 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nsubj _ _ 14 to to PART TO _ 15 mark _ _ 15 keep keep VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 acl _ _ 16 pests pest NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 obj _ _ 17 away away ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 18 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 cop _ _ 19 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 20 advmod _ _ 20 sprays spray NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 conj _ _ 21 but but CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 22 cleaning clean VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 20 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=23:amod 23 crumbs crumb NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 conj _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=26:punct 25 fixing fix VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 22 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=26:amod 26 drips drip NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 obj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:conj 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 28 airing airing NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 compound _ _ 29 clothes clothes NOUN NNS Number=Ptan 6 conj _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | | myths | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **keep away** | to-infinitive | the best way *not said here* | pests | | | | away *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pest=Theme | | 3 | **not** **is a** | present | the best way | sprays | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **clean** | gerund | the best way *not said here* | | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 5 | **fix** | gerund | the best way *not said here* | drips | | | | | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent drip=Patient | 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:3`. **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 ×3, 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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