Beetles: the biggest group of animals on Earth, wing cases and six legs, sentence 9

Haldane is said to have joked that the creator had «an inordinate fondness for beetles», which means he must love beetles far more than anything else.

Who acts: creator, inordinate fondness · What happens: say, joke, have, mean, love · To what, where: Haldane, inordinate fondness, beetles · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (creator, inordinate fondness), 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	Haldane	Haldane	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 said	nsubj:pass
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 said	aux:pass
3	said	say	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	6 joked	mark
5	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 joked	aux
6	joked	joke	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 said	xcomp
7	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 had	mark
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 creator	det
9	creator	creator	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 had	nsubj
10	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 joked	ccomp
11	«	«	PUNCT	_	14 fondness	punct
12	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 fondness	det
13	inordinate	inordinate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 fondness	amod
14	fondness	fondness	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 had	obj
15	for	for	ADP	_	16 beetles	case
16	beetles	beetle	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 fondness	nmod
17	»	»	PUNCT	_	14 fondness	punct
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 means	punct
19	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 means	nsubj
20	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 fondness	advcl:relcl
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 love	nsubj
22	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 love	aux
23	love	love	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 means	ccomp
24	beetles	beetle	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 love	obj
25	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	26 more	advmod
26	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	23 love	advmod
27	than	than	ADP	_	28 anything	case
28	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	26 more	obl
29	else	else	ADV	_	28 anything	advmod
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 said	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present · passive		Haldane		tree rules
2	joke speech: other	to-infinitive · perfect				tree rules
3	have	past	the creator	a inordinate fondness	for beetles	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fondness=Patient
4	mean	present	a inordinate fondness			vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	love	must	creator	beetles		vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer beetle=Stimulus

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: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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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