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title: Spiders have eight legs, octopuses eight arms, squid eight arms plus… — Counting animals: legs, arms, wings and tails · tree and pragmatics
description: Spiders have eight legs, octopuses eight arms, squid eight arms plus two longer tentacles, a woodlouse fourteen legs and a crab ten, counting its claws. Who acts: Spiders. A sentence of the lesson «Counting animals: legs, arms, wings and tails» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its
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# Counting animals: legs, arms, wings and tails, sentence 2

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Spiders have eight legs, octopuses eight arms, squid eight arms plus two longer tentacles, a woodlouse fourteen legs and a crab ten, counting its claws.

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**Who acts:** Spiders · **What happens:** have, count · **To what, where:** eight legs, claws

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Counting animals: legs, arms, wings and tails» 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), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:040-counting-legs-arms-wings-and-tails.lesson:2
# text = Spiders have eight legs, octopuses eight arms, squid eight arms plus two longer tentacles, a woodlouse fourteen legs and a crab ten, counting its claws.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 040-counting-legs-arms-wings-and-tails.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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Spiders	spider	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	eight	eight	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
4	legs	leg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	octopuses	octopus	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	_
7	eight	eight	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
8	arms	arm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	squid	squid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	parataxis	_	_
11	eight	eight	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	nummod	_	_
12	arms	arm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
13	plus	plus	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
14	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	16	nummod	_	_
15	longer	long	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	16	amod	_	_
16	tentacles	tentacle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	conj	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=21:det
19	woodlouse	woodlouse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
20	fourteen	fourteen	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	21	nummod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=21:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos
21	legs	leg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	appos	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	crab	crab	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	_
25	ten	ten	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	24	flat	_	_
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
27	counting	count	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
28	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	claws	claw	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obj	_	_
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | Spiders | eight legs and octopuses |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **count** | gerund | Spiders *not said here* | crab's claws |  |  |  |  | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent claw=Theme |

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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:040-counting-legs-arms-wings-and-tails.lesson:2`.

**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 ×1, 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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