--- title: In autumn male house spiders wander indoors looking for females, and… — Spiders, scorpions and other eight-legged creatu… · tree and pragmatics description: In autumn male house spiders wander indoors looking for females, and they get stuck in the bath because they cannot climb its smooth sides. Who acts: male house spiders, 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 (male 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:038-spiders-scorpions-and-eight-legged-creatures.lesson:8 # text = In autumn male house spiders wander indoors looking for females, and they get stuck in the bath because they cannot climb its smooth sides. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 038-spiders-scorpions-and-eight-legged-creatures.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 ×1 1 In in ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 autumn autumn NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 3 male male ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 4 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 compound _ _ 5 spiders spider NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nsubj _ _ 6 wander wander VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 indoors indoors ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:advmod 8 looking look VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 6 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:acl 9 for for ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 females female NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obl _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 13 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 14 get get VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 15 stuck stuck ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 xcomp _ _ 16 in in ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 bath bath NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ _ 19 because because SCONJ IN _ 23 mark _ _ 20 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 21 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 23 aux _ _ 22 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 23 advmod _ _ 23 climb climb VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 advcl _ _ 24 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 26 nmod:poss _ _ 25 smooth smooth ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 26 sides side NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 obj _ _ 27 . . PUNCT . _ 6 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 | **wander** | present | male house spiders | | | | autumn | indoors *property* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **look** | gerund | male house spiders *not said here* | | | | | for females | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for female=Theme | | 3 | **get** | present | Spiders *= spider* | | | | | stuck *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | | 4 | **not** **climb** | can | Spiders *= spider* | bath's smooth sides | | | | | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location side=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:038-spiders-scorpions-and-eight-legged-creatures.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 ×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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