--- title: House spiders eat flies, moths and even other spiders, so they are f… — Minibeasts in the house: house spiders, silverfi… · tree and pragmatics description: House spiders eat flies, moths and even other spiders, so they are free pest control. Who acts: House spiders, spiders. 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 with its dependency tr --- [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/6/) [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/) / 6 # Minibeasts in the house: house spiders, silverfish, woodlice, moths and cockroaches, sentence 6 House spiders eat flies, moths and even other spiders, so they are free pest control. **Who acts:** House spiders, spiders · **What happens:** eat, be · **To what, where:** flies, free pest control 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 (House spiders, 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:6 # text = House spiders eat flies, moths and even other spiders, so they are free pest control. # 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): no change 1 House house NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 spiders spider NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 eat eat VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 flies fly NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 6 moths moth NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 conj _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 8 even even ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 9 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 spiders spider NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 conj _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 12 so so ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 13 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 14 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 cop _ _ 15 free free ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 16 pest pest NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 compound _ _ 17 control control NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 parataxis _ _ 18 . . PUNCT . _ 3 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 | **eat** | present | House spiders | flies and moths and other spiders | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fly=Patient | | 2 | **is a** | present | spiders *= spider* | free pest control | | | | | tree rules | 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:6`. **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): no change. **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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