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title: Most house spiders are harmless and catch flies; you can catch one u… — Spiders, snakes and wild neighbours · tree and pragmatics
description: Most house spiders are harmless and catch flies; you can catch one under a cup with a card and put it outside. Who acts: Most house spiders, you. A sentence of the lesson «Spiders, snakes and wild neighbours» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics
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# Spiders, snakes and wild neighbours, sentence 8

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Most house spiders are harmless and catch flies; you can catch one under a cup with a card and put it outside.

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**Who acts:** Most house spiders, you · **What happens:** be, catch, put · **To what, where:** flies, one, cup, card

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Spiders, snakes and wild neighbours» of the everyday 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 (Most house spiders, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:069-spiders-snakes-and-wild-neighbours.lesson:8
# text = Most house spiders are harmless and catch flies; you can catch one under a cup with a card and put it outside.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 069-spiders-snakes-and-wild-neighbours.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
1	Most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	3	amod	_	_
2	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	spiders	spider	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
4	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	harmless	harmless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	catch	catch	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
8	flies	fly	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
9	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
10	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
11	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	catch	catch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	parataxis	_	_
13	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	obj	_	_
14	under	under	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	cup	cup	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
17	with	with	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	card	card	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:nmod
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	put	put	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	conj	_	_
22	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obj	_	_
23	outside	outside	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Most house spiders |  |  |  |  | harmless *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **catch** | present | Most house spiders *not said here* | flies |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fly=Theme |
| 3 | **catch** | can | you | one |  | a cup |  | with a card | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme |
| 4 | **put** | infinitive | you *not said here* | card |  |  |  | outside *property* | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent it=Goal |

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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.

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**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:everyday:069-spiders-snakes-and-wild-neighbours.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 ×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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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