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title: Spiders have eight legs and insects such as ants have six; a ladybir… — Olympiad: which claim is true? ★★★ · tree and pragmatics
description: Spiders have eight legs and insects such as ants have six; a ladybird's spots show its kind, so a seven-spot ladybird always has seven. Who acts: Spiders, spots, spot ladybird. A sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: which claim is true? ★★★» of the myths course of Mova's primary school with its depende
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# Olympiad: which claim is true? ★★★, sentence 7

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Spiders have eight legs and insects such as ants have six; a ladybird's spots show its kind, so a seven-spot ladybird always has seven.

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**Who acts:** Spiders, spots, spot ladybird · **What happens:** have, show · **To what, where:** eight legs, six, kind, seven

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: which claim is true? ★★★» 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, spots, spot ladybird), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:myths:036-olympiad-which-claim-is-true.lesson:7
# text = Spiders have eight legs and insects such as ants have six; a ladybird's spots show its kind, so a seven-spot ladybird always has seven.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = myths
# lesson = 036-olympiad-which-claim-is-true.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 ×2
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	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	insects	insect	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	_
7	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP	9	case	_	_
8	as	as	ADP	IN	_	7	fixed	_	_
9	ants	ant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	_
10	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:parataxis
11	six	six	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	obj	_	_
12	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	ladybird	ladybird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod:poss	_	_
15	's	's	PART	POS	_	14	case	_	_
16	spots	spot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj	_	_
17	show	show	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj
18	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	kind	kind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
21	so	so	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
23	seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	25	nummod	_	_
24	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	23	punct	_	_
25	spot	spot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	ladybird	ladybird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
27	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	28	advmod	_	_
28	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
29	seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	28	obj	_	_
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: pos
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | Spiders | eight legs and insects such ants |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leg=Patient |
| 2 | **have** | present | Spiders *not said here* | six |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent six=Patient |
| 3 | **show** | present | a ladybird's spots | ladybird's kind |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent kind=Recipient |
| 4 | **have** | present | a spot ladybird | seven |  |  |  | always *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent seven=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:036-olympiad-which-claim-is-true.lesson:7`.

**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 ×2. **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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