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title: Most spiders have 8 eyes, usually in two or three rows; some kinds h… — Counting animals: eyes, ears, hearts, trunks, te… · tree and pragmatics
description: Most spiders have 8 eyes, usually in two or three rows; some kinds have 6 or fewer and some cave spiders have none, and many web-builders feel the world through the vibrations of their silk. Who acts: Most spiders, kinds, cave spiders, many web builders. A sentence of the lesson «Counting animals: e
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# Counting animals: eyes, ears, hearts, trunks, tentacles, teeth, sentence 6

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Most spiders have 8 eyes, usually in two or three rows; some kinds have 6 or fewer and some cave spiders have none, and many web-builders feel the world through the vibrations of their silk.

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**Who acts:** Most spiders, kinds, cave spiders, many web builders, silk · **What happens:** have, feel, vibrate · **To what, where:** 8 eyes, two rows, 6, none, world, vibrations

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Counting animals: eyes, ears, hearts, trunks, tentacles, teeth» 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 (Most spiders, kinds, cave spiders, many web builders), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:041-counting-animals.lesson:6
# text = Most spiders have 8 eyes, usually in two or three rows; some kinds have 6 or fewer and some cave spiders have none, and many web-builders feel the world through the vibrations of their silk.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 041-counting-animals.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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	2	amod	_	_
2	spiders	spider	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	8	8	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
7	usually	usually	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
9	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	nummod	_	_
10	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	9	conj	_	_
12	rows	row	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:conj
13	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	15	det	_	_
15	kinds	kind	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj	_	_
16	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj
17	6	6	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	16	obj	_	_
18	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	fewer	few	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	17	conj	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
21	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	23	det	_	_
22	cave	cave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	spiders	spider	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nsubj	_	_
24	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	_
25	none	none	PRON	NN	PronType=Neg	24	obj	_	_
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
28	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
29	web	web	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	_
30	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	29	punct	_	_
31	builders	builder	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	nsubj	_	_
32	feel	feel	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=16:conj
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obj	_	_
35	through	through	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	vibrations	vibration	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	obl	_	_
38	of	of	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	40	nmod:poss	_	_
40	silk	silk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nmod	_	_
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | Most spiders | 8 eyes |  | two rows |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Patient |
| 2 | **have** | present | some kinds | 6 |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent 6=Patient |
| 3 | **have** | present | some cave spiders | none |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent none=Patient |
| 4 | **feel** | present | many web builders | the world |  | the vibrations of builders's silk |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent world=Theme through vibration=Location |
| 5 | **vibrate** |  | builders's silk |  |  |  |  |  | nom vibration «act intransitive»: of=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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**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): R3-conj-first ×1, 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.

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