--- title: House flies live about two to four weeks; it is adult mayflies that… — Small creatures and creepy-crawlies · tree and pragmatics description: House flies live about two to four weeks; it is adult mayflies that may live only hours or a day. Who acts: House flies, name, adult mayflies. A sentence of the lesson «Small creatures and creepy-crawlies» of the myths course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ev --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/9-small-creatures-and-creepy-crawlies/11/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Myths](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/) / [Small creatures and creepy-crawlies](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/9-small-creatures-and-creepy-crawlies/) / 11 # Small creatures and creepy-crawlies, sentence 11 House flies live about two to four weeks; it is adult mayflies that may live only hours or a day. **Who acts:** House flies, name, adult mayflies · **What happens:** live, be · **To what, where:** adult mayflies This is a sentence of the lesson «Small creatures and creepy-crawlies» of the myths 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 (House flies, name, adult mayflies), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:myths:009-small-creatures-and-creepy-crawlies.lesson:11 # text = House flies live about two to four weeks; it is adult mayflies that may live only hours or a day. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = myths # lesson = 009-small-creatures-and-creepy-crawlies.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): no change 1 House House NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 flies fly NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 live live VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 about about ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 5 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 8 nummod _ _ 6 to to ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 four four NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 5 nmod _ _ 8 weeks week NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obl:unmarked _ _ 9 ; ; PUNCT : _ 13 punct _ _ 10 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 11 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 cop _ _ 12 adult adult ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 mayflies mayfly NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 parataxis _ _ 14 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 16 nsubj _ _ 15 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 16 aux _ _ 16 live live VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 acl:relcl _ _ 17 only only ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 18 hours hour NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 obl _ _ 19 or or CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 20 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 conj _ _ 22 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **live** | present | House flies | | | | week | | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **is a** | present | name | adult mayflies | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **live** | may | adult mayflies | | | | hour | | 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:myths:009-small-creatures-and-creepy-crawlies.lesson:11`. **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): no change. **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: [Small creatures and creepy-crawlies, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/9-small-creatures-and-creepy-crawlies/10/) - next →: [Small creatures and creepy-crawlies, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/9-small-creatures-and-creepy-crawlies/13/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/9-small-creatures-and-creepy-crawlies/)