Tiny champions: the strongest beetle, the highest-jumping flea and the leggiest millipede, sentence 12

Centipedes always have an odd number of pairs of legs, from 15 to over 190, so none has exactly 100 legs, and their front legs are fangs, so never pick up a big one.

Who acts: Centipedes, none, front legs · What happens: have, be, not pick up · To what, where: odd number, 15, 100 legs, fangs, big one

This is a sentence of the lesson «Tiny champions: the strongest beetle, the highest-jumping flea and the leggiest millipede» 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, none, front legs), 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 Number=Plur Person=3 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	_	13 15	punct
12	from	from	ADP	_	13 15	case
13	15	15	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	3 have	obl
14	to	to	ADP	_	16 190	case
15	over	over	ADV	_	16 190	advmod
16	190	190	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	13 15	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 has	punct
18	so	so	ADV	_	20 has	advmod
19	none	none	PRON	PronType=Neg	20 has	nsubj
20	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 have	parataxis
21	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	22 100	advmod
22	100	100	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	23 legs	nummod
23	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 has	obj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 fangs	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 fangs	cc
26	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 legs	nmod:poss
27	front	front	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 legs	amod
28	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 fangs	nsubj
29	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 fangs	cop
30	fangs	fang	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 has	conj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 pick	punct
32	so	so	ADV	_	34 pick	advmod
33	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	34 pick	advmod
34	pick	pick	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 have	parataxis
35	up	up	ADP	_	34 pick	compound:prt
36	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	38 one	det
37	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 one	amod
38	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 pick	obj
39	.	.	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	Centipedes	a odd number of pairs of legs	15 to 190	always property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent number=Patient
2	have	present	none	100 legs			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leg=Patient
3	is a	present	centipedes's front legs	fangs			tree rules
4	not pick up	infinitive		a big one			vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Topic

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:365-tiny-champions-the-strongest-beetle-the-highest-jumping-flea-and-the-leggiest-millipede.lesson:12.

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.

See the release 0.4.

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