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title: Popular myth: the daddy longlegs is the most venomous spider but its… — Spiders, scorpions and other eight-leg… · tree and pragmatics
description: Popular myth: the daddy longlegs is the most venomous spider but its fangs are too small to bite. What is the truth? Test 4 · ★★ of lesson 38 «Spiders, scorpions and other eight-legged creatures» of the biology course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question 
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# Test 4 · ★★ · Spiders, scorpions and other eight-legged creatures

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Popular myth: the daddy longlegs is the most venomous spider but its fangs are too small to bite. What is the truth?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 2 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** daddy longlegs, Popular myth, truth · **What happens:** be, bite · **To what, where:** venomous spider

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This is test 4 · ★★ of lesson 38 «Spiders, scorpions and other eight-legged creatures» of the biology course of Mova's primary school. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: [the test at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/biology/38-spiders-scorpions-and-eight-legged-creatures/#t4).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Popular myth: the daddy longlegs is the most venomous spider but its fangs are too small to bite.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:38-spiders-scorpions-and-eight-legged-creatures:t4:1
# text = Popular myth: the daddy longlegs is the most venomous spider but its fangs are too small to bite.
1	Popular	popular	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	myth	myth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	daddy	daddy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	longlegs	longleg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
9	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	10	advmod	_	_
10	venomous	venomous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	spider	spider	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
12	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	fangs	fang	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	conj	_	_
15	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
16	too	too	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	bite	bite	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | the daddy longlegs | the venomous spider but myth's fangs |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | present | Popular myth |  |  |  |  | small *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **bite** | to-infinitive | Popular myth *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn swat-18.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent |

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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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*Sentence 2:* What is the truth?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:38-spiders-scorpions-and-eight-legged-creatures:t4:2
# text = What is the truth?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	0	root	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	truth	truth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | the truth |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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It is deadly but cannot bite

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:38-spiders-scorpions-and-eight-legged-creatures:t4:o1:1
# text = It is deadly but cannot bite
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	deadly	deadly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
5	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	7	advmod	_	_
7	bite	bite	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | It |  |  |  |  | deadly *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **bite** | can |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn swat-18.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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It is not a spider and has no venom glands at all

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:38-spiders-scorpions-and-eight-legged-creatures:t4:o2:1
# text = It is not a spider and has no venom glands at all
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	spider	spider	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
8	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	10	det	_	_
9	venom	venom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	glands	gland	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
11	at	at	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	10	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is a** | present | It | a spider |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **have** | present |  | no venom glands |  | all |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gland=Patient |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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It is a kind of wasp

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:38-spiders-scorpions-and-eight-legged-creatures:t4:o3:1
# text = It is a kind of wasp
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	kind	kind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	wasp	wasp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | It | a kind |  |  |  | of wasp | tree rules |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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It is deadly to dogs and cats, but its bite does no harm to people

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```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:38-spiders-scorpions-and-eight-legged-creatures:t4:o4:1
# text = It is deadly to dogs and cats, but its bite does no harm to people
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	deadly	deadly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	dogs	dog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	cats	cat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
10	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	bite	bite	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	does	do	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
13	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	14	det	_	_
14	harm	harm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | It |  |  |  |  | to dogs and cats; deadly *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **do** | present | its bite | no harm |  |  |  | to people | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent harm=Eventuality |
| 3 | **bite** |  | its *= it* |  |  |  |  |  | nom bite «state transitive»: poss=agent |

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