Unusual pets: stick insects, giant snails, ant farms and hermit crabs, sentence 18

A hermit crab has ten legs, but the back ones are small and hidden inside the shell to hold on, so only six are easy to see.

Who acts: hermit crab, back ones, six · What happens: have, be, hide, hold on, see · To what, where: ten legs, shell

This is a sentence of the lesson «Unusual pets: stick insects, giant snails, ant farms and hermit crabs» 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 (hermit crab, back ones, six), 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	3 crab	det
2	hermit	hermit	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 crab	compound
3	crab	crab	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 has	nsubj
4	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 legs	nummod
6	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 has	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 small	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 small	cc
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 ones	det
10	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 ones	compound
11	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 small	nsubj
12	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 small	cop
13	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 has	conj
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 hidden	cc
15	hidden	hide	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 small	conj
16	inside	inside	ADP	_	18 shell	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 shell	det
18	shell	shell	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 hidden	obl
19	to	to	PART	_	20 hold	mark
20	hold	hold	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 hidden	advcl
21	on	on	ADP	_	20 hold	compound:prt
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 easy	punct
23	so	so	ADV	_	27 easy	advmod
24	only	only	ADV	_	25 six	advmod
25	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	27 easy	nsubj
26	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 easy	cop
27	easy	easy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 small	conj
28	to	to	PART	_	29 see	mark
29	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 easy	xcomp
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 has	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	present	a hermit crab	ten legs			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leg=Patient
2	is	present	the back ones			small property	tree rules
3	hide	participle	the back ones not said here		the shell		vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent inside shell=Location
4	hold on	to-infinitive	the back ones not said here				vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	is	present	six			easy property	tree rules
6	see	to-infinitive	six not said here				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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:330-unusual-pets-stick-insects-giant-snails-ant-farms-and-hermit-crabs.lesson:18.

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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2. 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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