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title: The story that daddy-long-legs are the most venomous but cannot bite… — Record-breakers: the most venomous and poisonous · tree and pragmatics
description: The story that daddy-long-legs are the most venomous but cannot bite is a myth: two kinds of animal get that name, and harvestmen have no venom at all, while cellar spiders have only weak venom. Who acts: story, two kinds, harvestmen, cellar spiders. A sentence of the lesson «Record-breakers: the mo
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# Record-breakers: the most venomous and poisonous, sentence 11

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The story that daddy-long-legs are the most venomous but cannot bite is a myth: two kinds of animal get that name, and harvestmen have no venom at all, while cellar spiders have only weak venom.

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**Who acts:** story, two kinds, harvestmen, cellar spiders · **What happens:** be, not bite, get, have · **To what, where:** myth, name, venom, all, weak venom

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Record-breakers: the most venomous and poisonous» 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 (story, two kinds, harvestmen, cellar spiders), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:188-record-breakers-the-most-venomous-and-poisonous.lesson:11
# text = The story that daddy-long-legs are the most venomous but cannot bite is a myth: two kinds of animal get that name, and harvestmen have no venom at all, while cellar spiders have only weak venom.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 188-record-breakers-the-most-venomous-and-poisonous.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	2	det	_	_
2	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
3	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	12	nsubj	_	_
4	daddy	daddy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	_
6	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	_
8	legs	leg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
9	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	12	advmod	_	_
12	venomous	venomous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	acl:relcl	_	_
13	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
14	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
15	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	16	advmod	_	_
16	bite	bite	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	conj	_	_
17	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	myth	myth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
20	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	22	punct	_	_
21	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	22	nummod	_	_
22	kinds	kind	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nsubj	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	animal	animal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	_
25	get	get	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	parataxis	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=19:parataxis|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf
26	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	27	det	_	_
27	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
30	harvestmen	harvestman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	nsubj	_	_
31	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	conj	_	_
32	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	33	det	_	_
33	venom	venom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	_
34	at	at	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	33	nmod	_	_
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
37	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	40	mark	_	_
38	cellar	cellar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	compound	_	_
39	spiders	spider	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	40	nsubj	_	_
40	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	31	advcl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=31:conj
41	only	only	ADV	RB	_	42	advmod	_	_
42	weak	weak	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	43	amod	_	_
43	venom	venom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	obj	_	_
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	19	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** | present | the story |  |  |  |  | venomous *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **bite** | can | the story *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn swat-18.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is a** | present | the story | a myth |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **get** | present | two kinds of animal | that name |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer name=Stimulus |
| 5 | **have** | present | harvestmen | no venom |  | all |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent venom=Patient |
| 6 | **have** | present | cellar spiders | weak venom |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent venom=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:188-record-breakers-the-most-venomous-and-poisonous.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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