Counting animals: legs, arms, wings and tails, sentence 3

Names can trick you: a centipede never has exactly a hundred legs, most millipedes have far fewer than a thousand, and a starfish is not a fish and can have five arms or twenty-four.

Who acts: Names, centipede, most millipedes, starfish · What happens: trick, not have, have, not be · To what, where: you, hundred legs, fewer, fish, five arms

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 (Names, centipede, most millipedes, starfish), 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	Names	name	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 trick	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 trick	aux
3	trick	trick	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 trick	obj
5	:	:	PUNCT	_	9 has	punct
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 centipede	det
7	centipede	centipede	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 has	nsubj
8	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	9 has	advmod
9	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 trick	parataxis
10	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	12 hundred	advmod
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 hundred	det
12	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 legs	nummod
13	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 has	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 have	punct
15	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	16 millipedes	amod
16	millipedes	millipede	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 have	nsubj
17	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 trick	parataxis
18	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	19 fewer	advmod
19	fewer	few	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	17 have	obj
20	than	than	ADP	_	19 fewer	fixed
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 thousand	det
22	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	19 fewer	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 fish	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 fish	cc
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 starfish	det
26	starfish	starfish	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 fish	nsubj
27	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 fish	cop
28	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	30 fish	advmod
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 fish	det
30	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 have	parataxis
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 have	cc
32	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 have	aux
33	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 fish	conj
34	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	35 arms	nummod
35	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 have	obj
36	or	or	CCONJ	_	39 four	cc
37	twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	39 four	compound
38	-	-	PUNCT	_	39 four	punct
39	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	35 arms	conj
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 trick	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	trick	can	Names	you	vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Patient
2	not have	present	a centipede	hundred legs	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leg=Patient
3	have	present	most millipedes	fewer	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent few=Patient
4	not is a	present	a starfish	a fish	tree rules
5	have	can	a starfish not said here	five arms	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent arm=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:3.

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 ×4, 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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