--- title: The same animal can be a pest in one place and a helper in another:… — Pests: mice in the kitchen, cockroaches, clothes… · tree and pragmatics description: The same animal can be a pest in one place and a helper in another: a house spider eats flies and mosquitoes, so many people let it stay. Who acts: same animal, house spider, many people, spider. 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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 (same animal, house spider, many people, spider), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:397-pests-mice-in-the-kitchen-cockroaches-clothes-moths-fleas-and-head-lice.lesson:5 # text = The same animal can be a pest in one place and a helper in another: a house spider eats flies and mosquitoes, so many people let it stay. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 397-pests-mice-in-the-kitchen-cockroaches-clothes-moths-fleas-and-head-lice.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 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 animal animal NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 4 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 7 aux _ _ 5 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 7 cop _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 pest pest NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 8 in in ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 10 nummod _ _ 10 place place NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 helper helper NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 conj _ _ 14 in in ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 another another DET DT PronType=Ind 13 nmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=13:obl 16 : : PUNCT : _ 20 punct _ _ 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 18 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 compound _ _ 19 spider spider NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nsubj _ _ 20 eats eat VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 parataxis _ _ 21 flies fly NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 obj _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 23 mosquitoes mosquito NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 conj _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 25 so so ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 26 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 27 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 nsubj _ _ 28 let let VERB VB Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=20:advcl 29 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 obj _ _ 30 stay stay VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 28 xcomp _ _ 31 . . PUNCT . _ 7 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** | can | the same animal | a pest | | one place and a helper in another | | | tree rules | | 2 | **eat** | present | a house spider | flies and mosquitoes | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fly=Patient | | 3 | **let** | infinitive | many people | spider | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **stay** | infinitive | spider *not said here* | | | | | | vn exist-47.1 «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:397-pests-mice-in-the-kitchen-cockroaches-clothes-moths-fleas-and-head-lice.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): 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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