Beetles: the biggest group of animals on Earth, wing cases and six legs, sentence 11

Many beetles have five segments on each foot, others four or three, and each foot ends in two tiny claws; scientists count the segments to sort beetles into families.

Who acts: Many beetles, foot, scientists · What happens: have, end, count, sort · To what, where: five segments, foot, two tiny claws, segments, beetles, families

This is a sentence of the lesson «Beetles: the biggest group of animals on Earth, wing cases and six legs» 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 (Many beetles, foot, scientists), 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	Many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 beetles	amod
2	beetles	beetle	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 have	nsubj
3	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 segments	nummod
5	segments	segment	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 have	obj
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 foot	case
7	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	8 foot	det
8	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 segments	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 others	punct
10	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 segments	nmod
11	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 others	flat
12	or	or	CCONJ	_	13 three	cc
13	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 four	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 ends	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 ends	cc
16	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	17 foot	det
17	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 ends	nsubj
18	ends	end	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 have	conj
19	in	in	ADP	_	22 claws	case
20	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	22 claws	nummod
21	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 claws	amod
22	claws	claw	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 ends	obl
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 count	punct
24	scientists	scientist	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 count	nsubj
25	count	count	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 have	parataxis
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 segments	det
27	segments	segment	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 count	obj
28	to	to	PART	_	29 sort	mark
29	sort	sort	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 count	advcl
30	beetles	beetle	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 sort	obj
31	into	into	ADP	_	32 families	case
32	families	family	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 sort	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 have	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	present	Many beetles	five segments others	each foot		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent segment=Patient
2	end	present	each foot		two tiny claws		vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
3	count	present	scientists	the segments			vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent segment=Theme
4	sort	to-infinitive	scientists not said here	beetles		into families goal	vn classify-29.10 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent beetle=Theme into family=Goal

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:306-beetles-the-biggest-group-of-animals-on-earth-wing-cases-and-six-legs.lesson:11.

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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