Counting animals: legs, arms, wings and tails, sentence 11

Most starfish have five arms, but some kinds have more, and the sunflower sea star can have up to 24; a lost arm can grow back, and each arm has a small eye at its tip.

Who acts: Most starfish, kinds, sea star, lost arm, arm · What happens: have, have up, lose, grow back · To what, where: five arms, more, small eye, tip

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 (Most starfish, kinds, sea star, lost arm), 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	Most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	2 starfish	amod
2	starfish	starfish	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 have	nsubj
3	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 arms	nummod
5	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 have	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 have	punct
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	10 have	cc
8	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	9 kinds	det
9	kinds	kind	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 have	nsubj
10	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 have	conj
11	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	10 have	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 have	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 have	cc
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 star	det
15	sunflower	sunflower	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 sea	compound
16	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 star	compound
17	star	star	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 have	nsubj
18	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 have	aux
19	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 have	conj
20	up	up	ADV	_	22 24	advmod
21	to	to	ADP	_	22 24	case
22	24	24	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	19 have	obl
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 grow	punct
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 arm	det
25	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	26 arm	amod
26	arm	arm	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 grow	nsubj
27	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 grow	aux
28	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 have	parataxis
29	back	back	ADV	_	28 grow	advmod
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 has	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 has	cc
32	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	33 arm	det
33	arm	arm	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 has	nsubj
34	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 have	parataxis
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 eye	det
36	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 eye	amod
37	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 has	obj
38	at	at	ADP	_	40 tip	case
39	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	40 tip	nmod:poss
40	tip	tip	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 eye	nmod
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 have	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	present	Most starfish	five arms			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent arm=Patient
2	have	present	some kinds	more			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent more=Patient
3	have up	can	the sea star			to 24	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	lose	participle					vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	grow back	can	a lost arm				vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	have	present	each arm	a small eye	star's tip		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=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:040-counting-legs-arms-wings-and-tails.lesson:11.

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. 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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