--- title: A spider is not an insect: it has eight legs, two body parts and no… — Classifying unusual animals · tree and pragmatics description: A spider is not an insect: it has eight legs, two body parts and no antennae or wings; a woodlouse with fourteen legs is not an insect either, it is a relative of crabs. Who acts: spider, insect. 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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 (spider, insect), 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:3 # text = A spider is not an insect: it has eight legs, two body parts and no antennae or wings; a woodlouse with fourteen legs is not an insect either, it is a relative of crabs. # 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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 spider spider NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 4 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 6 advmod _ _ 5 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 insect insect NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nsubj _ _ 7 : : PUNCT : _ 9 punct _ _ 8 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 9 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:acl:relcl 10 eight eight NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 11 nummod _ _ 11 legs leg NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obj _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 13 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 15 nummod _ _ 14 body body NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 compound _ _ 15 parts part NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:nmod 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 17 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 18 det _ _ 18 antennae antennae NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 conj _ _ 19 or or CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 20 wings wing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 conj _ _ 21 ; ; PUNCT : _ 23 punct _ _ 22 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 woodlouse woodlouse NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 conj _ _ 24 with with ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 fourteen fourteen NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 26 nummod _ _ 26 legs leg NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 nmod _ _ 27 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 30 cop _ _ 28 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 30 advmod _ _ 29 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 insect insect NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 31 either either ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ _ 32 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 33 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 36 nsubj _ _ 34 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 36 cop _ _ 35 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 relative relative NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 parataxis _ _ 37 of of ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 38 crabs crab NOUN NNS Number=Plur 36 nmod _ _ 39 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=30:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **is a** | present | a spider | a insect and a woodlouse with fourteen legs | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **have** | present | spider | eight legs and two body parts and no antennae or wings | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leg=Patient | | 3 | **not** **is a** | present | a insect and a woodlouse with fourteen legs | a insect | | | | either *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **is a** | present | spider | a relative | | | | of crabs | 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:world:029-classifying-unusual-animals.lesson:3`. **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): R6-punct-agree ×1, 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/). - ← previous: [Classifying unusual animals, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/29-classifying-unusual-animals/2/) - next →: [Classifying unusual animals, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/29-classifying-unusual-animals/4/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/29-classifying-unusual-animals/)