Counting animals: legs, arms, wings and tails, sentence 5

Every adult insect has exactly six legs in three pairs, all fixed to the thorax; a caterpillar has six true legs at the front, and its stumpy back «legs» are fleshy grippers, not true legs.

Who acts: adult insect, six legs, caterpillar · What happens: have, fix, be · To what, where: six legs, three pairs, all, six true legs, front, fleshy grippers

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 (adult insect, six legs, caterpillar), 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	Every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	3 insect	det
2	adult	adult	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 insect	amod
3	insect	insect	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 has	nsubj
4	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	6 six	advmod
6	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 legs	nummod
7	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 has	obj
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 pairs	case
9	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 pairs	nummod
10	pairs	pair	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 legs	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 fixed	punct
12	all	all	PRON	PronType=Tot	13 fixed	nsubj:pass
13	fixed	fix	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 legs	acl:relcl
14	to	to	ADP	_	16 thorax	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 thorax	det
16	thorax	thorax	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 fixed	obl
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 has	punct
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 caterpillar	det
19	caterpillar	caterpillar	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 has	nsubj
20	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 has	parataxis
21	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	23 legs	nummod
22	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 legs	amod
23	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 has	obj
24	at	at	ADP	_	26 front	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 front	det
26	front	front	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 has	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 legs	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 legs	cc
29	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 legs	nmod:poss
30	stumpy	stumpy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 legs	amod
31	back	back	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 legs	amod
32	«	«	PUNCT	_	33 legs	punct
33	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 has	obj
34	»	»	PUNCT	_	33 legs	punct
35	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	37 grippers	cop
36	fleshy	fleshy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 grippers	amod
37	grippers	gripper	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 legs	appos
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 legs	punct
39	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	41 legs	advmod
40	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 legs	amod
41	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 grippers	conj
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 has	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	every adult insect	six legs	three pairs		tree rules
2	fix	participle · passive	six legs not said here	all		to the thorax	vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP PP»: subject=Patient to thorax=Co-Patient
3	have	present	a caterpillar	six true legs	the front		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leg=Patient
4	is a	present		fleshy grippers and true legs			tree rules

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:5.

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, 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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