Beetles: the biggest group of animals on Earth, wing cases and six legs, sentence 4

Beetles have six legs like every insect, biting jaws that open sideways, and a life in four stages: egg, grub, pupa and adult.

Who acts: Beetles, jaws · What happens: have, bite, open · To what, where: six legs, jaws

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 (Beetles, jaws), 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	Beetles	beetle	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 have	nsubj
2	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 legs	nummod
4	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 have	obj
5	like	like	ADP	_	7 insect	case
6	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	7 insect	det
7	insect	insect	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 legs	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 biting	punct
9	biting	bite	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 have	advcl
10	jaws	jaw	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 biting	obj
11	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 open	nsubj
12	open	open	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 jaws	acl:relcl
13	sideways	sideways	ADV	_	12 open	advmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 life	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 life	cc
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 life	det
17	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 have	parataxis
18	in	in	ADP	_	20 stages	case
19	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	20 stages	nummod
20	stages	stage	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 life	nmod
21	:	:	PUNCT	_	22 egg	punct
22	egg	egg	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 stages	appos
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 grub	punct
24	grub	grub	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 egg	conj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 pupa	punct
26	pupa	pupa	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 egg	conj
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 adult	cc
28	adult	adult	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 pupa	conj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 have	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have	present	Beetles	six legs	like every insect	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leg=Patient
2	bite	gerund	Beetles not said here	jaws		vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent jaw=Patient
3	open	present	jaws		sideways property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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: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): R3-conj-first ×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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