--- title: A spider has eight legs and is not an insect, a woodlouse has fourte… — Spiders and other minibeasts under logs and stones · tree and pragmatics description: A spider has eight legs and is not an insect, a woodlouse has fourteen legs, and centipedes and millipedes have many more, so counting legs is the quickest way to tell them apart. Who acts: spider, woodlouse, centipedes, counting. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (spider, woodlouse, centipedes, counting), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:220-spiders-and-other-minibeasts-under-logs-and-stones.lesson:4 # text = A spider has eight legs and is not an insect, a woodlouse has fourteen legs, and centipedes and millipedes have many more, so counting legs is the quickest way to tell them apart. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 220-spiders-and-other-minibeasts-under-logs-and-stones.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 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 spider spider NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 eight eight NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 5 nummod _ _ 5 legs leg NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 7 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 cop _ _ 8 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 10 advmod _ _ 9 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 insect insect NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 conj _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 woodlouse woodlouse NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nsubj _ _ 14 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 15 fourteen fourteen NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 16 nummod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=16:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 16 legs leg NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 obj _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 19 centipedes centipede NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 nsubj _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 21 millipedes millipede NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 conj _ _ 22 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 23 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 24 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 22 obj _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 26 so so ADV RB _ 32 advmod _ _ 27 counting count VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 32 csubj _ _ 28 legs leg NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 obj _ _ 29 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 32 cop _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 31 quickest quick ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 32 amod _ _ 32 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 parataxis _ _ 33 to to PART TO _ 34 mark _ _ 34 tell tell VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 32 acl _ _ 35 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 34 obj _ _ 36 apart apart ADV RB _ 34 advmod _ _ 37 . . 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 | **have** | present | a spider | eight legs | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leg=Patient | | 2 | **not** **is a** | present | a spider *not said here* | a insect | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **have** | present | a woodlouse | fourteen legs | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leg=Patient | | 4 | **have** | present | centipedes and millipedes | many more | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent more=Patient | | 5 | **count** | gerund | | legs | | | | | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leg=Theme | | 6 | **is a** | present | counting | the quickest way | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **tell** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive | a spider *not said here* | | centipedes *= centipede* | | | apart *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient | 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. 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