Counting animals: legs, arms, wings and tails, sentence 7
An octopus has eight arms with suckers all along them, and scientists call them arms, not tentacles.
Who acts: octopus, scientists · What happens: have, call · To what, where: eight arms, arms · 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 (octopus, scientists), 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 | An | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 octopus | det |
| 2 | octopus | octopus | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 has | nsubj |
| 3 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | eight | eight | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 arms | nummod |
| 5 | arms | arm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 has | obj |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 suckers | case |
| 7 | suckers | sucker | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 arms | nmod |
| 8 | all | all | ADV | _ | 10 them | advmod |
| 9 | along | along | ADP | _ | 10 them | case |
| 10 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 has | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 call | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 call | cc |
| 13 | scientists | scientist | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 call | nsubj |
| 14 | call | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 has | conj |
| 15 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 call | obj |
| 16 | arms | arm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 call | xcomp |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 tentacles | punct |
| 18 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 tentacles | advmod |
| 19 | tentacles | tentacle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 arms | conj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 has | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | a octopus | eight arms | with suckers; along arms = arm | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent arm=Patient | |||
| 2 | call | present | scientists | arms = arm | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=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:7.
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): no change. 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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