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title: Many insects have compound eyes made of hundreds or thousands of tin… — Insects and spiders · tree and pragmatics
description: Many insects have compound eyes made of hundreds or thousands of tiny lenses, very good at seeing movement all around them. Who acts: Many insects. 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.
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# Insects and spiders, sentence 9

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Many insects have compound eyes made of hundreds or thousands of tiny lenses, very good at seeing movement all around them.

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**Who acts:** Many insects · **What happens:** have, make, see · **To what, where:** compound eyes, movement

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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 (Many insects), 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:9
# text = Many insects have compound eyes made of hundreds or thousands of tiny lenses, very good at seeing movement all around them.
# 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): R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×3
1	Many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	insects	insect	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	compound	compound	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
6	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	acl	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	hundreds	hundred	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
9	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	thousands	thousand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	conj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	tiny	tiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	lenses	lens	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	very	very	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:conj
17	at	at	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=18:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_
18	seeing	see	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	16	advcl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=16:obl
19	movement	movement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
20	all	all	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
21	around	around	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=18:obj
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: pos
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | Many insects | compound eyes |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Patient |
| 2 | **make** | participle |  | compound eyes *not said here* |  |  |  | of hundreds of tiny lenses or thousands | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
| 3 | **see** | gerund | Many insects *not said here* | movement |  |  |  | around lenses *= lens* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer movement=Stimulus |

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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:072-insects-and-spiders.lesson:9`.

**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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×3. **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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