--- title: The big spiders seen in houses in autumn are mostly males already li… — Minibeasts in the house: house spiders, silverfi… · tree and pragmatics description: The big spiders seen in houses in autumn are mostly males already living there, walking about looking for partners; giant house spiders can have a leg span of about 7 centimetres. Who acts: big spiders, males, giant house spiders. A sentence of the lesson «Minibeasts in the house: house spiders, sil --- [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/5/) [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/) / 5 # Minibeasts in the house: house spiders, silverfish, woodlice, moths and cockroaches, sentence 5 The big spiders seen in houses in autumn are mostly males already living there, walking about looking for partners; giant house spiders can have a leg span of about 7 centimetres. **Who acts:** big spiders, males, giant house spiders · **What happens:** see, be, live, walk, look, have · **To what, where:** big spiders, houses, males, leg span 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 (big spiders, males, giant house 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:5 # text = The big spiders seen in houses in autumn are mostly males already living there, walking about looking for partners; giant house spiders can have a leg span of about 7 centimetres. # 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, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 spiders spider NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 nsubj _ _ 4 seen see VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 acl _ _ 5 in in ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 houses house NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obl _ _ 7 in in ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 autumn autumn NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:nmod 9 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 cop _ _ 10 mostly mostly ADV RB Degree=Pos 11 advmod _ _ 11 males male NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 12 already already ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 13 living live VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 11 acl _ _ 14 there there ADV RB PronType=Dem 13 advmod _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 16 walking walk VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 13 advcl _ _ 17 about about ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 18 looking look VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 16 advcl _ _ 19 for for ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 partners partner NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obl _ _ 21 ; ; PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 22 giant giant ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 23 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 compound _ _ 24 spiders spider NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 nsubj _ _ 25 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 26 aux _ _ 26 have have VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:conj 27 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 28 leg leg NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 compound _ _ 29 span span NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obj _ _ 30 of of ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 31 about about ADV RB _ 32 advmod _ _ 32 7 7 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 33 nummod _ _ 33 centimetres centimetre NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 nmod _ _ 34 . . PUNCT . _ 11 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **see** | participle | | the big spiders *not said here* | | houses | autumn | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 2 | **is a** | present | the big spiders | males | | | | mostly *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **live** | gerund | males *not said here* | | | there | | | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **walk** | gerund | males *not said here* | | | | | about *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **look** | gerund | males *not said here* | | | | | for partners | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for partner=Theme | | 6 | **have** | can | giant house spiders | a leg span of 7 centimetres | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent span=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:5`. **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, 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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