--- title: In Britain the crane fly is called daddy long legs; it is not a spid… — Animal myths put right: elephants and mice, lemm… · tree and pragmatics description: In Britain the crane fly is called daddy long legs; it is not a spider and has no venom, and the cellar spiders also called daddy long legs have weak venom that is harmless to people. Who acts: fly, cellar spiders, weak venom. 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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 (fly, cellar spiders, weak venom), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:295-animal-myths-put-right-elephants-and-mice-lemmings-ostriches-and-goldfish.lesson:13 # text = In Britain the crane fly is called daddy long legs; it is not a spider and has no venom, and the cellar spiders also called daddy long legs have weak venom that is harmless to people. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 295-animal-myths-put-right-elephants-and-mice-lemmings-ostriches-and-goldfish.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): R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 In in ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 Britain Britain PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 4 crane crane NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 compound _ _ 5 fly fly NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj:pass _ _ 6 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 aux:pass _ _ 7 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 8 daddy daddy NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 compound _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:xcomp 9 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 legs leg NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 xcomp _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:nmod 11 ; ; PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 12 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 13 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 cop _ _ 14 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 16 advmod _ _ 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 spider spider NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:xcomp 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 18 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 19 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 20 det _ _ 20 venom venom NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obj _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 24 cellar cellar NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 compound _ _ 25 spiders spider NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 nsubj _ _ 26 also also ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ _ 27 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 25 acl _ _ 28 daddy daddy NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 compound _ _ 29 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 30 legs leg NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 obj _ _ 31 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 32 weak weak ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 amod _ _ 33 venom venom NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obj _ _ 34 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 36 nsubj _ _ 35 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 36 cop _ _ 36 harmless harmless ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 acl:relcl _ _ 37 to to ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 38 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 36 obl _ _ 39 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **call** *speech: assert* | present · passive | | the crane fly | | Britain | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | | 2 | **not** **is a** | present | fly | a spider | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **have** | present | | no venom | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent venom=Patient | | 4 | **call** | participle | the cellar spiders *not said here* | daddy long legs | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent leg=Recipient | | 5 | **have** | present | the cellar spiders | weak venom | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent venom=Patient | | 6 | **is** | present | weak venom | | | | | to people; harmless *property* | tree rules | 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. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:biology:295-animal-myths-put-right-elephants-and-mice-lemmings-ostriches-and-goldfish.lesson:13`. **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): R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-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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