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title: Spiders are not insects: they have eight legs and two body parts; a… — Classifying unusual animals · tree and pragmatics
description: Spiders are not insects: they have eight legs and two body parts; a ladybird, a small spotted beetle, is an insect with six legs. Who acts: Spiders, Ostriches. A sentence of the lesson «Classifying unusual animals» of the world course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmat
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# Classifying unusual animals, sentence 10

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Spiders are not insects: they have eight legs and two body parts; a ladybird, a small spotted beetle, is an insect with six legs.

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**Who acts:** Spiders, Ostriches · **What happens:** not be, have, spot, be · **To what, where:** insects, eight legs, insect

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Classifying unusual animals» of the world 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, Ostriches), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:world:029-classifying-unusual-animals.lesson:10
# text = Spiders are not insects: they have eight legs and two body parts; a ladybird, a small spotted beetle, is an insect with six legs.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = world
# lesson = 029-classifying-unusual-animals.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	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	:	_	7	punct	_	_
6	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
8	eight	eight	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	_
9	legs	leg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
11	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	13	nummod	_	_
12	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	parts	part	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	conj	_	_
14	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	ladybird	ladybird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
19	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
20	spotted	spot	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	amod	_	_
21	beetle	beetle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	appos	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=16:conj
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
24	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	insect	insect	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj
26	with	with	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	six	six	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	28	nummod	_	_
28	legs	leg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nmod	_	_
29	.	.	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 and a ladybird |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **have** | present | Ostriches *= ostrich* | eight legs and two body parts |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leg=Patient |
| 3 | **spot** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn weather-57 «It V PP.theme» |
| 4 | **is a** | present |  | a insect |  |  |  | with six legs | tree rules |

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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:world:029-classifying-unusual-animals.lesson:10`.

**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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