---
title: Most spiders have eight eyes, and very few are dangerous to people. — Insects and spiders · tree and pragmatics
description: Most spiders have eight eyes, and very few are dangerous to people. Who acts: Most spiders, few. A sentence of the lesson «Insects and spiders» of the world course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/72-insects-and-spiders/17/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [World](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/) / [Insects and spiders](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/72-insects-and-spiders/) / 17

# Insects and spiders, sentence 17

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Most spiders have eight eyes, and very few are dangerous to people.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** Most spiders, few · **What happens:** have, be · **To what, where:** eight eyes

<!-- .vabout -->
This is a sentence of the lesson «Insects and spiders» 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 (Most spiders, few), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:world:072-insects-and-spiders.lesson:17
# text = Most spiders have eight eyes, and very few are dangerous to people.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = world
# lesson = 072-insects-and-spiders.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
1	Most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	2	amod	_	_
2	spiders	spider	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	eight	eight	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=9:punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
8	very	very	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	nsubj	_	_
10	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
11	dangerous	dangerous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	_
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .note -->
No stored speech act for this sentence.

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | Most spiders | eight eyes |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Patient |
| 2 | **is** | present | few |  |  |  |  | to people; dangerous *property* | tree rules |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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:072-insects-and-spiders.lesson:17`.

**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. **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/).

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [Insects and spiders, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/72-insects-and-spiders/16/)
- next →: [Birds: feathers, nests and flight, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/73-birds-feathers-nests-flight/0/)
- ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/72-insects-and-spiders/)