--- title: Silverfish are wingless insects with three long tails that have look… — Minibeasts in the house: house spiders, silverfi… · tree and pragmatics description: Silverfish are wingless insects with three long tails that have looked much the same for an enormously long time; they eat starch (the stuff in flour and pasta), glue, paper and crumbs, like damp dark places and can live a year without food. Who acts: Silverfish, three long tails. 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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 (Silverfish, three long tails), 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:8 # text = Silverfish are wingless insects with three long tails that have looked much the same for an enormously long time; they eat starch (the stuff in flour and pasta), glue, paper and crumbs, like damp dark places and can live a year without food. # 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, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Silverfish silverfish NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 2 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 3 wingless wingless ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 insects insect NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 5 with with ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 6 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 8 nummod _ _ 7 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 tails tail NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nmod _ _ 9 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 11 nsubj _ _ 10 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 aux _ _ 11 looked look VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 8 acl:relcl _ _ 12 much much ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:advcl 15 for for ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 16 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 17 enormously enormously ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 18 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:obl 20 ; ; PUNCT : _ 22 punct _ _ 21 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 22 eat eat VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj 23 starch starch NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obj _ _ 24 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 26 punct _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 stuff stuff NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 appos _ _ 27 in in ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 28 flour flour NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nmod _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 30 pasta pasta NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=26:conj 31 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 26 punct _ _ 32 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 33 glue glue NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 conj _ _ 34 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 35 paper paper NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 conj _ _ 36 and and CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 37 crumbs crumb NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 conj _ _ 38 , , PUNCT , _ 42 punct _ _ 39 like like ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 40 damp damp ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 42 amod _ _ 41 dark dark ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 42 amod _ _ 42 places place NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 obl _ _ 43 and and CCONJ CC _ 45 cc _ _ 44 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 45 aux _ _ 45 live live VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 22 conj _ _ 46 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 47 det _ _ 47 year year NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 obl:unmarked _ _ 48 without without ADP IN _ 49 case _ _ 49 food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 obl _ _ 50 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | Silverfish | wingless insects | | | | with three long tails | tree rules | | 2 | **look** | present · perfect | three long tails | | | | time | same *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | | 3 | **eat** | present | silverfish | starch and glue and paper and crumbs | | | | like damp dark places | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent starch=Patient | | 4 | **live** | can | silverfish *not said here* | | | | year | without food | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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:8`. **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, 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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