Counting animals: legs, arms, wings and tails, sentence 1

Count a beetle on a leaf: three legs on each side, six in all, and every one of them grows from the middle part of its body, the thorax, one pair on each of its three sections, as in every adult insect.

Who acts: you, one, pair · What happens: count, grow, section · To what, where: beetle, leaf, thorax

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 (you, one, pair), 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	Count	count	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 beetle	det
3	beetle	beetle	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Count	obj
4	on	on	ADP	_	6 leaf	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 leaf	det
6	leaf	leaf	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Count	obl
7	:	:	PUNCT	_	9 legs	punct
8	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 legs	nummod
9	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 leaf	nmod
10	on	on	ADP	_	12 side	case
11	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	12 side	det
12	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 legs	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 six	punct
14	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 legs	appos
15	in	in	ADP	_	16 all	case
16	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	14 six	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 grows	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 grows	cc
19	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	20 one	det
20	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 grows	nsubj
21	of	of	ADP	_	22 them	case
22	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 one	nmod
23	grows	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Count	conj
24	from	from	ADP	_	27 part	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 part	det
26	middle	middle	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 part	amod
27	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 grows	obl
28	of	of	ADP	_	30 body	case
29	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 body	nmod:poss
30	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 part	nmod
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 thorax	punct
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 thorax	det
33	thorax	thorax	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 grows	obl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 pair	punct
35	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	36 pair	nummod
36	pair	pair	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 thorax	conj
37	on	on	ADP	_	38 each	case
38	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	36 pair	nmod
39	of	of	ADP	_	42 sections	case
40	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	42 sections	nmod:poss
41	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	42 sections	nummod
42	sections	section	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 each	nmod
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 insect	punct
44	as	as	ADP	_	48 insect	case
45	in	in	ADP	_	48 insect	case
46	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	48 insect	det
47	adult	adult	ADJ	Degree=Pos	48 insect	amod
48	insect	insect	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Count	parataxis
49	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Count	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	count	imperative	you not said here	a beetle	a leaf three legs on each side		vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beetle=Theme
2	grow	present	every one of legs	the thorax and one pair on each		from the middle part of part's body	vn grow-26.2.1 «NP.product V PP.patient»: agent=Product from part=Patient
3	section		pair				nom section «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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:1.

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): R7-rel-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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