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title: Most American tarantulas flick itchy barbed hairs at enemies, and fe… — Spiders, scorpions and other eight-legged creatu… · tree and pragmatics
description: Most American tarantulas flick itchy barbed hairs at enemies, and female tarantulas can live 20 to 30 years. Who acts: Most American tarantulas, female tarantulas. A sentence of the lesson «Spiders, scorpions and other eight-legged creatures» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its d
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# Spiders, scorpions and other eight-legged creatures, sentence 12

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Most American tarantulas flick itchy barbed hairs at enemies, and female tarantulas can live 20 to 30 years.

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**Who acts:** Most American tarantulas, female tarantulas · **What happens:** flick, barb, live · **To what, where:** itchy barbed hairs, enemies

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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 (Most American tarantulas, female tarantulas), 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:12
# text = Most American tarantulas flick itchy barbed hairs at enemies, and female tarantulas can live 20 to 30 years.
# 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): no change
1	Most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	3	amod	_	_
2	American	American	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	tarantulas	tarantula	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	flick	flick	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	itchy	itchy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
6	barbed	barb	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	amod	_	_
7	hairs	hair	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
8	at	at	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	enemies	enemy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
12	female	female	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	tarantulas	tarantula	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	_
14	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	live	live	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
16	20	20	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	19	nummod	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	30	30	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	16	nmod	_	_
19	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl:unmarked	_	_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **flick** | present | Most American tarantulas | itchy barbed hairs |  | enemies |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent hair=Theme at enemy=Destination |
| 2 | **barb** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **live** | can | female tarantulas |  |  |  | year |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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:12`.

**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): no change. **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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