--- title: Scorpions are arachnids whose outer shell glows blue-green under ult… — Spiders, scorpions and other eight-legged creatu… · tree and pragmatics description: Scorpions are arachnids whose outer shell glows blue-green under ultraviolet light; mothers carry their babies on their backs. Who acts: Scorpions, outer shell, mothers. 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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 (Scorpions, outer shell, mothers), 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:15 # text = Scorpions are arachnids whose outer shell glows blue-green under ultraviolet light; mothers carry their babies on their backs. # 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, R7-rel-agree ×4 1 Scorpions scorpion NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 2 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 cop _ _ 3 arachnids arachnid NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 4 whose whose PRON WP$ Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel 6 nmod:poss _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:nmod:poss 5 outer outer ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:amod 6 shell shell NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:compound 7 glows glow VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 acl:relcl _ _ 8 blue blue ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 9 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 8 punct _ _ 10 green green ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:advmod 11 under under ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 ultraviolet ultraviolet ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=13:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 13 light light NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 14 ; ; PUNCT : _ 16 punct _ _ 15 mothers mother NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 nsubj _ _ 16 carry carry VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj 17 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 18 nmod:poss _ _ 18 babies baby NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 obj _ _ 19 on on ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 21 nmod:poss _ _ 21 backs back NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=18:nmod 22 . . PUNCT . _ 3 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 | **is a** | present | Scorpions | arachnids | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **glow** | present | outer shell | | | ultraviolet light | | green *property* | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme under light=Location | | 3 | **carry** | present | mothers | mothers's babies | | mothers's backs | | | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent baby=Theme | 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:038-spiders-scorpions-and-eight-legged-creatures.lesson:15`. **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, R7-rel-agree ×4. **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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