--- title: A spider in the bath almost certainly fell in while hunting and cann… — Minibeasts in the house: house spiders, silverfi… · tree and pragmatics description: A spider in the bath almost certainly fell in while hunting and cannot climb the slippery sides, and a plughole's water trap stops spiders coming up the drain; most spiders have eight legs and eight eyes. Who acts: spider, water trap, spiders, most spiders. 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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 (spider, water trap, spiders, most spiders), 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:4 # text = A spider in the bath almost certainly fell in while hunting and cannot climb the slippery sides, and a plughole's water trap stops spiders coming up the drain; most spiders have eight legs and eight eyes. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×2 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 spider spider NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 3 in in ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 bath bath NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 6 almost almost ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 7 certainly certainly ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 8 fell fell VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 in in ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:compound:prt|HaikuPos=ADP:RP:_ 10 while while SCONJ IN _ 11 mark _ _ 11 hunting hunting VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 8 advcl _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 13 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 15 aux _ _ 14 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 15 advmod _ _ 15 climb climb VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 conj _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 17 slippery slippery ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 sides side NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 obj _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 21 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 plughole plughole NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nmod:poss _ _ 23 's 's PART POS _ 22 case _ _ 24 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 compound _ _ 25 trap trap NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nsubj _ _ 26 stops stop VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 27 spiders spider NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 obj _ _ 28 coming come VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 27 acl _ _ 29 up up ADP RP _ 28 compound:prt _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 drain drain NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=28:obj 32 ; ; PUNCT : _ 35 punct _ _ 33 most most ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 34 amod _ _ 34 spiders spider NOUN NNS Number=Plur 35 nsubj _ _ 35 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 conj _ _ 36 eight eight NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 37 nummod _ _ 37 legs leg NOUN NNS Number=Plur 35 obj _ _ 38 and and CCONJ CC _ 40 cc _ _ 39 eight eight NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 40 nummod _ _ 40 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 37 conj _ _ 41 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **fell in** | past | a spider in the bath | | | | | certainly *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **hunting** | gerund | a spider in the bath *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **not** **climb** | can | a spider in the bath *not said here* | the slippery sides | | | | | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location side=Theme | | 4 | **stop** | present | a plughole's water trap | spiders | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality spider=Eventuality | | 5 | **come up** | gerund | spiders *not said here* | the drain | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **have** | present | most spiders | eight legs and eight eyes | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leg=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:4`. **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): R7-rel-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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