--- title: Some fall apart when you simply count: a spider has eight legs and t… — Small creatures and creepy-crawlies · tree and pragmatics description: Some fall apart when you simply count: a spider has eight legs and two body parts, so it isn't an insect, and a seven-spot ladybird has seven spots its whole life, so spots aren't birthdays. Who acts: Some, you, spider, spot ladybird. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Some, you, spider, spot ladybird), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:myths:009-small-creatures-and-creepy-crawlies.lesson:4 # text = Some fall apart when you simply count: a spider has eight legs and two body parts, so it isn't an insect, and a seven-spot ladybird has seven spots its whole life, so spots aren't birthdays. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = myths # lesson = 009-small-creatures-and-creepy-crawlies.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): R1-cc-next ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Some some DET DT PronType=Ind 2 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=2:nsubj|HaikuPos=PRON:DT:PronType=Ind 2 fall fall VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 apart apart ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 4 when when SCONJ WRB _ 7 mark _ _ 5 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ _ 6 simply simply ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 7 count count VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 advcl _ _ 8 : : PUNCT : _ 11 punct _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 spider spider NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 11 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 12 eight eight NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 13 nummod _ _ 13 legs leg NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 obj _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=13:cc 15 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 17 nummod _ _ 16 body body NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 compound _ _ 17 parts part NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 conj _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 19 so so ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 20 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 21 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 cop _ _ 22 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 24 advmod _ _ 23 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 insect insect NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 conj _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=24:cc 27 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 28 seven seven NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 30 nummod _ _ 29 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 28 punct _ _ 30 spot spot NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 compound _ _ 31 ladybird ladybird NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 nsubj _ _ 32 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 conj _ _ 33 seven seven NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 34 nummod _ _ 34 spots spot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 obj _ _ 35 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 37 nmod:poss _ _ 36 whole whole ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 37 amod _ _ 37 life life NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 nmod _ _ 38 , , PUNCT , _ 43 punct _ _ 39 so so ADV RB _ 43 advmod _ _ 40 spots spot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 43 nsubj _ _ 41 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 43 cop _ _ 42 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 43 advmod _ _ 43 birthdays birthday NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=32:conj 44 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=assert | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **fall apart** | present | Some | | | | | apart *property* | vn break\_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient | | 2 | **count** | present | you | | | | | simply *property* | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus | | 3 | **have** | present | a spider | eight legs and two body parts | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leg=Patient | | 4 | **not** **is a** | present | spider | a insect | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **have** | present | a spot ladybird | seven spots ladybird's whole life | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spot=Patient | | 6 | **not** **is a** | present | spots | birthdays | | | | | 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:009-small-creatures-and-creepy-crawlies.lesson:4`. **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): R1-cc-next ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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: [Small creatures and creepy-crawlies, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/9-small-creatures-and-creepy-crawlies/3/) - next →: [Small creatures and creepy-crawlies, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/9-small-creatures-and-creepy-crawlies/5/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/9-small-creatures-and-creepy-crawlies/)