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title: The Goliath birdeater is the heaviest spider in the world, with a le… — The Amazon forest floor: leafcutters, army ants,… · tree and pragmatics
description: The Goliath birdeater is the heaviest spider in the world, with a leg span like a dinner plate, and mostly eats insects, worms and frogs, only rarely a bird. Who acts: Goliath birdeater. A sentence of the lesson «The Amazon forest floor: leafcutters, army ants, tapirs, jaguars and the giant spider» 
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# The Amazon forest floor: leafcutters, army ants, tapirs, jaguars and the giant spider, sentence 11

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The Goliath birdeater is the heaviest spider in the world, with a leg span like a dinner plate, and mostly eats insects, worms and frogs, only rarely a bird.

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**Who acts:** Goliath birdeater · **What happens:** be, eat · **To what, where:** heaviest spider, world, insects

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The Amazon forest floor: leafcutters, army ants, tapirs, jaguars and the giant spider» 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 (Goliath birdeater), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:157-the-amazon-forest-floor.lesson:11
# text = The Goliath birdeater is the heaviest spider in the world, with a leg span like a dinner plate, and mostly eats insects, worms and frogs, only rarely a bird.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 157-the-amazon-forest-floor.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	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Goliath	Goliath	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=3:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
3	birdeater	birdeater	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	heaviest	heavy	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	7	amod	_	_
7	spider	spider	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	with	with	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	leg	leg	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	span	span	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
16	like	like	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	dinner	dinner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	plate	plate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
22	mostly	mostly	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	eats	eat	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
24	insects	insect	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obj	_	_
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
26	worms	worm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	conj	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	frogs	frog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	conj	_	_
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
30	only	only	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
31	rarely	rarely	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
32	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	appos	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=24:conj
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	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 a** | present | the Goliath birdeater | the heaviest spider |  | the world |  | with a leg span like a dinner plate | tree rules |
| 2 | **eat** | present | the Goliath birdeater *not said here* | insects and worms and frogs |  |  |  | mostly *property* | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent insect=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:157-the-amazon-forest-floor.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): 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.

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

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