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title: Spiders are not insects: they are arachnids, with eight legs, a body… — Spiders, scorpions and other eight-legged creatu… · tree and pragmatics
description: Spiders are not insects: they are arachnids, with eight legs, a body in only two parts, no feelers, no wings, and usually eight eyes. Who acts: insects. A sentence of the lesson «Spiders, scorpions and other eight-legged creatures» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency t
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# Spiders, scorpions and other eight-legged creatures, sentence 0

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Spiders are not insects: they are arachnids, with eight legs, a body in only two parts, no feelers, no wings, and usually eight eyes.

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**Who acts:** insects · **What happens:** not be, be · **To what, where:** insects, arachnids

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Spiders, scorpions and other eight-legged creatures» 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 (insects), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:038-spiders-scorpions-and-eight-legged-creatures.lesson:0
# text = Spiders are not insects: they are arachnids, with eight legs, a body in only two parts, no feelers, no wings, and usually eight eyes.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 038-spiders-scorpions-and-eight-legged-creatures.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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Spiders	spider	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	insects	insect	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
5	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	_
6	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
7	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
8	arachnids	arachnid	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	with	with	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	eight	eight	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	nummod	_	_
12	legs	leg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	only	only	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=19:advmod
18	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	19	nummod	_	_
19	parts	part	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nmod	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	22	det	_	_
22	feelers	feeler	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	25	det	_	_
25	wings	wing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
28	usually	usually	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
29	eight	eight	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	30	nummod	_	_
30	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	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 | **not** **is a** | present |  | insects |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | present | insects *= insect* | arachnids and a body in two parts |  |  |  | with eight legs | tree rules |

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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:038-spiders-scorpions-and-eight-legged-creatures.lesson:0`.

**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 ×1, 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.

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

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