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title: Almost all spiders have venom for their prey, but only a few, like b… — Spiders, scorpions and other eight-legged creatu… · tree and pragmatics
description: Almost all spiders have venom for their prey, but only a few, like black widows and the Sydney funnel-web, are dangerous to people, and antivenoms exist; no British spider is deadly. Who acts: spiders, few black widows, antivenoms, British spider. A sentence of the lesson «Spiders, scorpions and oth
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# Spiders, scorpions and other eight-legged creatures, sentence 13

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Almost all spiders have venom for their prey, but only a few, like black widows and the Sydney funnel-web, are dangerous to people, and antivenoms exist; no British spider is deadly.

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**Who acts:** spiders, few black widows, antivenoms, British spider · **What happens:** have, be, exist · **To what, where:** venom

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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 (spiders, few black widows, antivenoms, British spider), 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:13
# text = Almost all spiders have venom for their prey, but only a few, like black widows and the Sydney funnel-web, are dangerous to people, and antivenoms exist; no British spider is deadly.
# 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 ×3
1	Almost	almost	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:advmod
2	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	3	det	_	_
3	spiders	spider	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	venom	venom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	prey	prey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
10	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
11	only	only	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=17:advmod
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=17:det
13	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	like	like	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	widows	widow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nsubj	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
20	Sydney	Sydney	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
21	funnel	funnel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
22	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	21	punct	_	_
23	web	web	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
25	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
26	dangerous	dangerous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
27	to	to	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obl	_	_
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
31	antivenoms	antivenom	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	nsubj	_	_
32	exist	exist	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	conj	_	_
33	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	38	punct	_	_
34	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	36	det	_	_
35	British	British	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	spider	spider	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	nsubj	_	_
37	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	38	cop	_	_
38	deadly	deadly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: pos
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | all spiders | venom |  |  |  | for Spiders's prey | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent venom=Patient |
| 2 | **is** | present | few black widows and the Sydney funnel web |  |  |  |  | to people; dangerous *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **exist** | present | antivenoms |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **is** | present | no British spider |  |  |  |  | deadly *property* | 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: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 ×3. **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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