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title: Spiders are not insects; they are arachnids with eight legs, while i… — When the teacher gets it wrong · tree and pragmatics
description: Spiders are not insects; they are arachnids with eight legs, while insects have six. Who acts: Spiders, insects. 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.
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# When the teacher gets it wrong, sentence 8

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Spiders are not insects; they are arachnids with eight legs, while insects have six.

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**Who acts:** Spiders, insects · **What happens:** not be, be, have · **To what, where:** insects, arachnids, six

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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 (Spiders, insects), 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:8
# text = Spiders are not insects; they are arachnids with eight legs, while insects have six.
# 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	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	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	insects	insect	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
5	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
7	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
8	arachnids	arachnid	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	eight	eight	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	nummod	_	_
11	legs	leg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
14	insects	insect	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	_
15	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	_
16	six	six	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	15	obj	_	_
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **not** **is a** | present | Spiders | insects |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | present | spiders *= spider* | arachnids |  |  |  | with eight legs | tree rules |
| 3 | **have** | present | insects | six |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent six=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:myths:033-when-the-teacher-gets-it-wrong.lesson:8`.

**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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