Counting animals: legs, arms, wings and tails, sentence 0

Counting is one of a scientist's best tools: the number of legs, arms or wings tells you what kind of animal you are looking at, even when it looks like something else.

Who acts: number, you · What happens: count, be, tell, look · To what, where: one, best tools, you, kind · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Counting animals: legs, arms, wings and tails» 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 (number, you), 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	Counting	count	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 one	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 one	cop
3	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	9 tools	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 scientist	det
6	scientist	scientist	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 tools	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 scientist	case
8	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	9 tools	amod
9	tools	tool	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 one	nmod
10	:	:	PUNCT	_	12 number	punct
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 number	det
12	number	number	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 tells	nsubj
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 legs	case
14	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 number	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 arms	punct
16	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 legs	conj
17	or	or	CCONJ	_	18 wings	cc
18	wings	wing	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 legs	conj
19	tells	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 tools	acl:relcl
20	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	19 tells	iobj
21	what	what	DET	PronType=Int	22 kind	det
22	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 looking	obl
23	of	of	ADP	_	24 animal	case
24	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 kind	nmod
25	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	27 looking	nsubj
26	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 looking	aux
27	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	19 tells	ccomp
28	at	at	ADP	_	27 looking	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 looks	punct
30	even	even	ADV	_	33 looks	advmod
31	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	33 looks	advmod
32	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 looks	nsubj
33	looks	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 looking	advcl
34	like	like	ADP	_	35 something	case
35	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	33 looks	obl
36	else	else	ADV	_	35 something	advmod
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 one	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	count	gerund					vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus
2	is a	present		one		of a scientist's best tools	tree rules
3	tell speech: assert	present	the number of legs and arms or wings	a scientist's best tools not said here	you		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic
4	look	present · progressive	you	what kind of animal			vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
5	look	present	number			like something	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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:040-counting-legs-arms-wings-and-tails.lesson:0.

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 ×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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