The rainforest from below: understorey and forest floor, sentence 15

Centipedes always have an odd number of pairs of legs, so no centipede has exactly 100 legs.

Who acts: Centipedes, centipede · What happens: have · To what, where: odd number, 100 legs

This is a sentence of the lesson «The rainforest from below: understorey and forest floor» 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 (Centipedes, centipede), 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	Centipedes	centipede	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 have	nsubj
2	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	3 have	advmod
3	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 number	det
5	odd	odd	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 number	amod
6	number	number	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 have	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 pairs	case
8	pairs	pair	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 number	nmod
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 legs	case
10	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 pairs	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 has	punct
12	so	so	ADV	_	15 has	advmod
13	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	14 centipede	det
14	centipede	centipede	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 has	nsubj
15	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 have	parataxis
16	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	17 100	advmod
17	100	100	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	18 legs	nummod
18	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 has	obj
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 have	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	Centipedes	a odd number of pairs of legs				always property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent number=Patient
2	have	present	no centipede	100 legs					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leg=Patient

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:003-the-rainforest-from-below.lesson:15.

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): no change. 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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