Counting animals: eyes, ears, hearts, trunks, tentacles, teeth, sentence 13

Most starfish have 5 arms with a simple eye at the tip of each, some sun stars have 20 or more, and a starfish can slowly regrow a lost arm, which is why one arm may be shorter; look at rock-pool animals and leave them where they are.

Who acts: Most starfish, sun stars, starfish, one arm · What happens: have, regrow, lose, be, look, leave · To what, where: 5 arms, 20, lost arm, arms

This is a sentence of the lesson «Counting animals: eyes, ears, hearts, trunks, tentacles, teeth» 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 (Most starfish, sun stars, starfish, one arm), 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	Most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	2 starfish	amod
2	starfish	starfish	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 have	nsubj
3	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	5	5	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	5 arms	nummod
5	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 have	obj
6	with	with	ADP	_	9 eye	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 eye	det
8	simple	simple	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 eye	amod
9	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 have	obl
10	at	at	ADP	_	12 tip	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 tip	det
12	tip	tip	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 eye	nmod
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 each	case
14	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	12 tip	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 have	punct
16	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	18 stars	det
17	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 stars	compound
18	stars	star	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 have	nsubj
19	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 have	parataxis
20	20	20	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	19 have	obj
21	or	or	CCONJ	_	22 more	cc
22	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	20 20	conj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 regrow	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 regrow	cc
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 starfish	det
26	starfish	starfish	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 regrow	nsubj
27	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 regrow	aux
28	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	29 regrow	advmod
29	regrow	regrow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 have	conj
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 arm	det
31	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	32 arm	amod
32	arm	arm	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 regrow	obj
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 why	punct
34	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	36 why	nsubj
35	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	36 why	cop
36	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	29 regrow	parataxis
37	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	38 arm	nummod
38	arm	arm	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 shorter	nsubj
39	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	41 shorter	aux
40	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	41 shorter	cop
41	shorter	short	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	36 why	advcl:relcl
42	;	;	PUNCT	_	43 look	punct
43	look	look	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	29 regrow	parataxis
44	at	at	ADP	_	48 animals	case
45	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 pool	compound
46	-	-	PUNCT	_	45 rock	punct
47	pool	pool	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 animals	compound
48	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	43 look	obl
49	and	and	CCONJ	_	50 leave	cc
50	leave	leave	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	43 look	conj
51	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	50 leave	obj
52	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	50 leave	advcl
53	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	54 are	nsubj
54	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	52 where	cop
55	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 have	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have	present	Most starfish	5 arms	with a simple eye at the tip of each	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent arm=Patient
2	have	present	some sun stars	20		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent 20=Patient
3	regrow	can	a starfish	a lost arm	slowly property	tree rules
4	lose	participle				vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	is	present			why property	tree rules
6	is	may	one arm		short property	tree rules
7	look	infinitive			at pool animals	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at animal=Theme
8	leave	infinitive		arms = arm		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
9	is	present			where property	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:041-counting-animals.lesson:13.

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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