Surprising brains: tool-using fish, counting bees, laughing rats and clever pigs, sentence 16
A honeybee brain has about a million nerve cells, and a human brain about 86 billion.
Who acts: honeybee brain · What happens: have · To what, where: million nerve cells
This is a sentence of the lesson «Surprising brains: tool-using fish, counting bees, laughing rats and clever pigs» 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 (honeybee brain), 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 brain | det |
| 2 | honeybee | honeybee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 brain | compound |
| 3 | brain | brain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 has | nsubj |
| 4 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | about | about | ADV | _ | 7 million | advmod |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 million | det |
| 7 | million | million | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 cells | nummod |
| 8 | nerve | nerve | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 cells | compound |
| 9 | cells | cell | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 has | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 billion | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 billion | cc |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 brain | det |
| 13 | human | human | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 brain | amod |
| 14 | brain | brain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 billion | nsubj |
| 15 | about | about | ADV | _ | 17 billion | advmod |
| 16 | 86 | 86 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 17 billion | compound |
| 17 | billion | billion | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 has | conj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 has | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | a honeybee brain | million nerve cells | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cell=Patient |
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:388-surprising-brains-tool-using-fish-counting-bees-laughing-rats-and-clever-pigs.lesson:16.
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 ×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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