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title: Spiders are mostly harmless to people, but a few are dangerous, so w… — Spiders, scorpions and other eight-legged creatu… · tree and pragmatics
description: Spiders are mostly harmless to people, but a few are dangerous, so we watch and never handle wild ones, and we forget the myth about swallowing spiders in our sleep. Who acts: Spiders, few, we, myth. A sentence of the lesson «Spiders, scorpions and other eight-legged creatures» of the biology course
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# Spiders, scorpions and other eight-legged creatures, sentence 4

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Spiders are mostly harmless to people, but a few are dangerous, so we watch and never handle wild ones, and we forget the myth about swallowing spiders in our sleep.

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**Who acts:** Spiders, few, we, myth, our · **What happens:** be, watch, not handle, forget, swallow, sleep · **To what, where:** wild ones, myth, spiders, sleep

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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, we, myth), 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:4
# text = Spiders are mostly harmless to people, but a few are dangerous, so we watch and never handle wild ones, and we forget the myth about swallowing spiders in our sleep.
# 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	Spiders	spider	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	mostly	mostly	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	harmless	harmless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
8	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	nsubj	_	_
11	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
12	dangerous	dangerous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	so	so	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
15	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	watch	watch	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	19	advmod	_	_
19	handle	handle	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	_
20	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	ones	one	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obj	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
24	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
25	forget	forget	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	myth	myth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
28	about	about	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
29	swallowing	swallow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	27	acl	_	_
30	spiders	spider	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	obj	_	_
31	in	in	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	33	nmod:poss	_	_
33	sleep	sleep	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	_
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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** | present | Spiders |  |  |  |  | to people; harmless, mostly *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | present | a few |  |  |  |  | dangerous *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **watch** | present | we |  |  |  |  |  | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **not** **handle** | present | we *not said here* | wild ones |  |  |  |  | vn hold-15.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme |
| 5 | **forget** | present | we | the myth |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **swallow** | gerund | the myth *not said here* | spiders |  | our sleep |  |  | vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spider=Patient |
| 7 | **sleep** |  | our |  |  |  |  |  | nom sleep «state intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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:4`.

**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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