--- title: Most spiders and insects are harmless; keep your distance and ask an… — Facing fears · tree and pragmatics description: Most spiders and insects are harmless; keep your distance and ask an adult to move them, and in Australia some spiders need an adult. Who acts: Most 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 (Most spiders, spiders), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:090-facing-fears.lesson:10 # text = Most spiders and insects are harmless; keep your distance and ask an adult to move them, and in Australia some spiders need an adult. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 090-facing-fears.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): R1-cc-next ×3 1 Most most ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 2 amod _ _ 2 spiders spider NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nsubj _ _ 3 and and CCONJ CC _ 4 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=2:cc 4 insects insect NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 conj _ _ 5 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 6 harmless harmless ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 7 ; ; PUNCT : _ 6 punct _ _ 8 keep keep VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 parataxis _ _ 9 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 10 nmod:poss _ _ 10 distance distance NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=8:cc 12 ask ask VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 conj _ _ 13 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 adult adult NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ _ 15 to to PART TO _ 16 mark _ _ 16 move move VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 xcomp _ _ 17 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 obj _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=6:cc 20 in in ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 Australia Australia PROPN NNP Number=Sing 24 obl _ _ 22 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 23 det _ _ 23 spiders spider NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 nsubj _ _ 24 need need VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 25 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 adult adult NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obj _ _ 27 . . PUNCT . _ 6 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** | present | Most spiders and insects | | | | | harmless *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **keep** | infinitive | | your distance | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent distance=Theme | | 3 | **ask** *speech: ask* | infinitive | | | a adult | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S\_INF»: agent=Agent adult=Recipient clause=Topic | | 4 | **move** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | | spiders *= spider* | | | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent they=Theme | | 5 | **need** | present | some spiders | a adult | | Australia | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot adult=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:everyday:090-facing-fears.lesson:10`. **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): R1-cc-next ×3. **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/). - ← previous: [Facing fears, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/90-facing-fears/9/) - next →: [Facing fears, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/90-facing-fears/11/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/90-facing-fears/)