Counting animals: legs, arms, wings and tails, sentence 15

A woodlouse has 14 legs and is a crustacean, related to crabs; a crab has ten legs counting its claws, which is why it is called a decapod.

Who acts: woodlouse, crab, ten legs · What happens: have, be, count, call · To what, where: 14 legs, crustacean, ten legs, claws, woodlouse · 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 (woodlouse, crab, ten 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 woodlouse	det
2	woodlouse	woodlouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 has	nsubj
3	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	14	14	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	5 legs	nummod
5	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 has	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 crustacean	cc
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 crustacean	cop
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 crustacean	det
9	crustacean	crustacean	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 has	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 crustacean	punct
11	related	related	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 crustacean	amod
12	to	to	ADP	_	13 crabs	case
13	crabs	crab	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 related	obl
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 has	punct
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 crab	det
16	crab	crab	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 has	nsubj
17	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 has	parataxis
18	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	19 legs	nummod
19	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 has	obj
20	counting	count	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	19 legs	acl
21	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 claws	nmod:poss
22	claws	claw	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 counting	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 why	punct
24	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 why	nsubj
25	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 why	cop
26	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	20 counting	conj
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 called	nsubj:pass
28	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 called	aux:pass
29	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	26 why	advcl:relcl
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 decapod	det
31	decapod	decapod	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 called	xcomp
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 has	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have	present	a woodlouse	14 legs		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leg=Patient
2	is a	present	a woodlouse not said here	a crustacean		tree rules
3	have	present	a crab	ten legs		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leg=Patient
4	count	gerund	ten legs not said here	crab's claws		vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent claw=Theme
5	is	present			why property	tree rules
6	call	present · passive		woodlouse		vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient

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:15.

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 ×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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