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title: The harvestman, or daddy longlegs, is an arachnid but not a spider:… — Spiders, scorpions and other eight-legged creatu… · tree and pragmatics
description: The harvestman, or daddy longlegs, is an arachnid but not a spider: it has a one-piece round body, two eyes, no silk and no venom at all. Who acts: harvestman, shell. A sentence of the lesson «Spiders, scorpions and other eight-legged creatures» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with it
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# Spiders, scorpions and other eight-legged creatures, sentence 16

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The harvestman, or daddy longlegs, is an arachnid but not a spider: it has a one-piece round body, two eyes, no silk and no venom at all.

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**Who acts:** harvestman, shell · **What happens:** be, have · **To what, where:** arachnid, piece round body

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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 (harvestman, shell), 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:16
# text = The harvestman, or daddy longlegs, is an arachnid but not a spider: it has a one-piece round body, two eyes, no silk and no venom at all.
# 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 ×5
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	harvestman	harvestman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
4	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
5	daddy	daddy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	longlegs	longleg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
8	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
9	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	arachnid	arachnid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
11	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
12	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	14	advmod	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	spider	spider	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
15	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
16	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	parataxis	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=21:det
19	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	21	nummod	_	_
20	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	19	punct	_	_
21	piece	piece	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=17:obj
22	round	round	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=21:conj
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	26	nummod	_	_
26	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=21:conj
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
28	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	29	det	_	_
29	silk	silk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
31	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	32	det	_	_
32	venom	venom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	conj	_	_
33	at	at	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	32	nmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=29:nmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | the harvestman or daddy longlegs | a arachnid but a spider |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **have** | present | shell | a piece round body and two eyes |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent body=Patient |

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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:16`.

**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 ×5. **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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