--- title: Then ask, don't attack: "I read that spiders are arachnids because o… — When the teacher gets it wrong · tree and pragmatics description: Then ask, don't attack: "I read that spiders are arachnids because of the eight legs, is that right?" Who acts: you, I, spiders, that. A sentence of the lesson «When the teacher gets it wrong» of the myths course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/33-when-the-teacher-gets-it-wrong/2/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Myths](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/) / [When the teacher gets it wrong](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/33-when-the-teacher-gets-it-wrong/) / 2 # When the teacher gets it wrong, sentence 2 Then ask, don't attack: "I read that spiders are arachnids because of the eight legs, is that right?" **Who acts:** you, I, spiders, that · **What happens:** ask, not attack, read, be · **To what, where:** arachnids · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «When the teacher gets it wrong» of the myths 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 (you, I, spiders, that), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:myths:033-when-the-teacher-gets-it-wrong.lesson:2 # text = Then ask, don't attack: "I read that spiders are arachnids because of the eight legs, is that right?" # source = school lesson (ours) # course = myths # lesson = 033-when-the-teacher-gets-it-wrong.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 Then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 2 advmod _ _ 2 ask ask VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 4 do do AUX VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 6 aux _ _ 5 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 6 advmod _ _ 6 attack attack VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 2 ccomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj 7 : : PUNCT : _ 10 punct _ _ 8 " " PUNCT `` _ 10 punct _ _ 9 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 10 read read VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 11 that that SCONJ IN _ 14 mark _ _ 12 spiders spider NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 nsubj _ _ 13 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 cop _ _ 14 arachnids arachnid NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 ccomp _ _ 15 because because ADP IN ExtPos=ADP 19 case _ _ 16 of of ADP IN _ 15 fixed _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 18 eight eight NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 19 nummod _ _ 19 legs leg NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obl _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 21 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 cop _ _ 22 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 23 nsubj _ _ 23 right right ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 parataxis _ _ 24 ? ? PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ 25 " " PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **ask** *speech: ask* | imperative | you *not said here* | | | | then | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **not** **attack** | infinitive · do-support | | | | | | because the eight legs | vn attack-60.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **read** *in a quote* | past | I | | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | spiders | arachnids | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **is** *in a quote* | present | that | | | | | right *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:myths:033-when-the-teacher-gets-it-wrong.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): 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/). - ← previous: [When the teacher gets it wrong, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/33-when-the-teacher-gets-it-wrong/1/) - next →: [When the teacher gets it wrong, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/33-when-the-teacher-gets-it-wrong/3/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/33-when-the-teacher-gets-it-wrong/)