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title: Almost all spiders in Ukraine and Europe are harmless to people, mos… — Bites, stings and scratches: mosquitoes, wasps,… · tree and pragmatics
description: Almost all spiders in Ukraine and Europe are harmless to people, most cannot even bite through our skin, and they bite only when trapped or squeezed; a spider has two fangs, eight legs and often eight eyes. Who acts: spiders, most, spider. A sentence of the lesson «Bites, stings and scratches: mosqu
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# Bites, stings and scratches: mosquitoes, wasps, ticks, dog bites and cat scratches, sentence 17

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Almost all spiders in Ukraine and Europe are harmless to people, most cannot even bite through our skin, and they bite only when trapped or squeezed; a spider has two fangs, eight legs and often eight eyes.

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**Who acts:** spiders, most, spider · **What happens:** be, not bite, bite, trap, squeeze, have · **To what, where:** people, skin, two fangs

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Bites, stings and scratches: mosquitoes, wasps, ticks, dog bites and cat scratches» 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, most, spider), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:399-bites-stings-and-scratches-mosquitoes-wasps-ticks-dog-bites-and-cat-scratches.lesson:17
# text = Almost all spiders in Ukraine and Europe are harmless to people, most cannot even bite through our skin, and they bite only when trapped or squeezed; a spider has two fangs, eight legs and often eight eyes.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 399-bites-stings-and-scratches-mosquitoes-wasps-ticks-dog-bites-and-cat-scratches.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	Almost	almost	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	3	det	_	_
3	spiders	spider	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Ukraine	Ukraine	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	Europe	Europe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
8	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
9	harmless	harmless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
13	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	17	nsubj	_	_
14	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
15	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	17	advmod	_	_
16	even	even	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	bite	bite	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	acl:relcl	_	_
18	through	through	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	skin	skin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
23	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	bite	bite	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
25	only	only	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
26	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	27	advmod	_	_
27	trapped	trap	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	24	advcl	_	_
28	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	squeezed	squeeze	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	27	conj	_	_
30	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	33	punct	_	_
31	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	spider	spider	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nsubj	_	_
33	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:conj
34	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	35	nummod	_	_
35	fangs	fang	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	obj	_	_
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
37	eight	eight	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	38	nummod	_	_
38	legs	leg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	conj	_	_
39	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	42	cc	_	_
40	often	often	ADV	RB	_	41	advmod	_	_
41	eight	eight	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	42	nummod	_	_
42	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	conj	_	_
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	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 | all spiders in Ukraine and Europe |  |  |  |  | to people; harmless *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **bite** | can | most | people *not said here* |  | our skin |  |  | vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent people=Patient through skin=Location |
| 3 | **bite** | present | spiders *= spider* |  |  |  |  |  | vn swat-18.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **trap** | participle | spiders *= spider* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **squeeze** | participle | spiders *= spider* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **have** | present | a spider | two fangs and eight legs and eight eyes |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fang=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:399-bites-stings-and-scratches-mosquitoes-wasps-ticks-dog-bites-and-cat-scratches.lesson:17`.

**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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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