Counting animals: legs, arms, wings and tails, sentence 9

Centipedes have one pair of legs on each body section and always an odd number of pairs, so no centipede has exactly 100 legs; the common brown garden centipede has 30.

Who acts: Centipedes, centipede, common brown garden centipede · What happens: have · To what, where: one pair, 100 legs, 30

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 (Centipedes, centipede, common brown garden centipede), 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	Centipedes	centipede	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 have	nsubj
2	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 pair	nummod
4	pair	pair	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 have	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 legs	case
6	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 pair	nmod
7	on	on	ADP	_	10 section	case
8	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	10 section	det
9	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 section	compound
10	section	section	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 legs	nmod
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 number	cc
12	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	15 number	advmod
13	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 number	det
14	odd	odd	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 number	amod
15	number	number	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 section	conj
16	of	of	ADP	_	17 pairs	case
17	pairs	pair	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 number	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 has	punct
19	so	so	ADV	_	22 has	advmod
20	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	21 centipede	det
21	centipede	centipede	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 has	nsubj
22	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 have	parataxis
23	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	24 100	advmod
24	100	100	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	25 legs	nummod
25	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 has	obj
26	;	;	PUNCT	_	32 has	punct
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 centipede	det
28	common	common	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 centipede	amod
29	brown	brown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 centipede	amod
30	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 centipede	compound
31	centipede	centipede	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 has	nsubj
32	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 have	parataxis
33	30	30	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	32 has	obj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 have	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	have	present	Centipedes	one pair of legs on each body section and a odd number of pairs	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pair=Patient
2	have	present	no centipede	100 legs	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leg=Patient
3	have	present	the common brown garden centipede	30	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent 30=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:9.

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 ×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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