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title: Most spiders have eight eyes, but many see poorly and rely on touch… — Spider-Man: real spider senses, climbing and bites · tree and pragmatics
description: Most spiders have eight eyes, but many see poorly and rely on touch and vibration; some cave spiders have no eyes at all. Who acts: Most spiders, many, cave spiders. A sentence of the lesson «Spider-Man: real spider senses, climbing and bites» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its 
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# Spider-Man: real spider senses, climbing and bites, sentence 12

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Most spiders have eight eyes, but many see poorly and rely on touch and vibration; some cave spiders have no eyes at all.

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**Who acts:** Most spiders, many, cave spiders · **What happens:** have, see, rely · **To what, where:** eight eyes, eyes, all

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Spider-Man: real spider senses, climbing and bites» of the biology 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 spiders, many, cave spiders), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:148-spider-man-real-spider-senses-climbing-and-bites.lesson:12
# text = Most spiders have eight eyes, but many see poorly and rely on touch and vibration; some cave spiders have no eyes at all.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 148-spider-man-real-spider-senses-climbing-and-bites.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 ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	2	amod	_	_
2	spiders	spider	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	eight	eight	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=9:nsubj|HaikuPos=PRON:JJ:_
9	see	see	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:parataxis
10	poorly	poorly	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	rely	rely	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
13	on	on	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	touch	touch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	vibration	vibration	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	_
17	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
18	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	20	det	_	_
19	cave	cave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	spiders	spider	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nsubj	_	_
21	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
22	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	23	det	_	_
23	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obj	_	_
24	at	at	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	23	nmod	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **have** | present | Most spiders | eight eyes |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Patient |
| 2 | **see** | present | many |  |  |  |  | poorly *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **rely** | present | many *not said here* |  |  |  |  | on touch and vibration | vn rely-70 «NP V PP.theme S\_ING»: agent=Agent on touch=Theme |
| 4 | **have** | present | some cave spiders | no eyes |  | all |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Patient |

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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:biology:148-spider-man-real-spider-senses-climbing-and-bites.lesson:12`.

**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 ×1, R8-pos-agree ×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.

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