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title: None of the creatures called "daddy longlegs" is dangerous to people… — Small creatures and creepy-crawlies · tree and pragmatics
description: None of the creatures called "daddy longlegs" is dangerous to people; cellar spiders' venom is weak for us, they very rarely bite, and they even eat other spiders. Who acts: creatures, None, venom, flatworms. A sentence of the lesson «Small creatures and creepy-crawlies» of the myths course of Mova'
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# Small creatures and creepy-crawlies, sentence 7

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None of the creatures called "daddy longlegs" is dangerous to people; cellar spiders' venom is weak for us, they very rarely bite, and they even eat other spiders.

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**Who acts:** creatures, None, venom, flatworms · **What happens:** call, be, bite, eat · **To what, where:** daddy longlegs, other spiders · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Small creatures and creepy-crawlies» 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 (creatures, None, venom, flatworms), 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:7
# text = None of the creatures called "daddy longlegs" is dangerous to people; cellar spiders' venom is weak for us, they very rarely bite, and they even eat other spiders.
# 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): R5-strong ×1
1	None	none	PRON	NN	PronType=Neg	11	nsubj	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	creatures	creature	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	nmod	_	_
5	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	acl	_	_
6	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	_
7	daddy	daddy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	longlegs	longleg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	xcomp	_	_
9	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
10	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
11	dangerous	dangerous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	_
14	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
15	cellar	cellar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	spiders	spider	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nmod:poss	_	_
17	'	's	PART	POS	_	16	case	_	_
18	venom	venom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
19	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
20	weak	weak	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	parataxis	_	_
21	for	for	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	20	obl	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
24	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
25	very	very	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=27:advmod
26	rarely	rarely	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
27	bite	bite	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	parataxis	_	_
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
30	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
31	even	even	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
32	eat	eat	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	conj	_	_
33	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	spiders	spider	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	obj	_	_
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **call** | participle | the creatures *not said here* | daddy longlegs |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | present | None |  |  |  |  | to people; dangerous *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | present | cellar spiders's venom |  |  |  |  | for us; weak *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **bite** | present | flatworms *= flatworm* |  |  |  |  | rarely *property* | vn swat-18.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **eat** | present | flatworms *= flatworm* | other spiders |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spider=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:009-small-creatures-and-creepy-crawlies.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): R5-strong ×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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