Spiders and other minibeasts under logs and stones, sentence 4

A spider has eight legs and is not an insect, a woodlouse has fourteen legs, and centipedes and millipedes have many more, so counting legs is the quickest way to tell them apart.

Who acts: spider, woodlouse, centipedes, counting · What happens: have, not be, count, be, tell · To what, where: eight legs, insect, fourteen legs, many more, legs, quickest way · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Spiders and other minibeasts under logs and stones» of the biology 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 (spider, woodlouse, centipedes, counting), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 spider	det
2	spider	spider	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 has	nsubj
3	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	eight	eight	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 legs	nummod
5	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 has	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 insect	cc
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 insect	cop
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 insect	advmod
9	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 insect	det
10	insect	insect	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 has	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 has	punct
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 woodlouse	det
13	woodlouse	woodlouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 has	nsubj
14	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 has	conj
15	fourteen	fourteen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	16 legs	nummod
16	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 has	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 have	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 have	cc
19	centipedes	centipede	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 have	nsubj
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 millipedes	cc
21	millipedes	millipede	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 centipedes	conj
22	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 has	conj
23	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 more	amod
24	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	22 have	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 way	punct
26	so	so	ADV	_	32 way	advmod
27	counting	count	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	32 way	csubj
28	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 counting	obj
29	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 way	cop
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 way	det
31	quickest	quick	ADJ	Degree=Sup	32 way	amod
32	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 has	parataxis
33	to	to	PART	_	34 tell	mark
34	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 way	acl
35	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 tell	obj
36	apart	apart	ADV	_	34 tell	advmod
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 has	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	have	present	a spider	eight legs			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leg=Patient
2	not is a	present	a spider not said here	a insect			tree rules
3	have	present	a woodlouse	fourteen legs			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leg=Patient
4	have	present	centipedes and millipedes	many more			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent more=Patient
5	count	gerund		legs			vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leg=Theme
6	is a	present	counting	the quickest way			tree rules
7	tell speech: assert	to-infinitive	a spider not said here		centipedes = centipede	apart property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient

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, 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:biology:220-spiders-and-other-minibeasts-under-logs-and-stones.lesson:4.

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 ×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.

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