--- title: The family includes scorpions that glow under an ultraviolet torch,… — Spiders, scorpions and other eight-legged creatu… · tree and pragmatics description: The family includes scorpions that glow under an ultraviolet torch, ticks that wait in long grass, and the daddy longlegs, which is not a spider at all. Who acts: family, scorpions, ticks, daddy longlegs. 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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 (family, scorpions, ticks, daddy longlegs), 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:3 # text = The family includes scorpions that glow under an ultraviolet torch, ticks that wait in long grass, and the daddy longlegs, which is not a spider 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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 family family NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 includes include VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 scorpions scorpion NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ 5 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 6 nsubj _ _ 6 glow glow VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 acl:relcl _ _ 7 under under ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 8 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 9 ultraviolet ultraviolet ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 10 torch torch NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 12 ticks tick NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 conj _ _ 13 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 14 nsubj _ _ 14 wait wait VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 acl:relcl _ _ 15 in in ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 grass grass NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 21 daddy daddy NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 compound _ _ 22 longlegs longleg NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 conj _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 24 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 28 nsubj _ _ 25 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 cop _ _ 26 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 28 advmod _ _ 27 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 spider spider NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 acl:relcl _ _ 29 at at ADP IN _ 30 fixed _ _ 30 all all ADV RB PronType=Tot 28 advmod _ _ 31 . . 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 | **include** | present | the family | scorpions and ticks and the daddy longlegs | | | | | vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent scorpion=Theme | | 2 | **glow** | present | scorpions and ticks and the daddy longlegs | | | a ultraviolet torch | | | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme under torch=Location | | 3 | **wait** | present | ticks | | | long grass | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in grass=Location | | 4 | **not** **is a** | present | the daddy longlegs | a spider | | | | all *property* | tree rules | 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:3`. **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): 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. 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