Counting animals: eyes, ears, hearts, trunks, tentacles, teeth, sentence 15
No centipede has exactly 100 legs: they have from 15 to 191 pairs, always an odd number of pairs; the leggiest known animal is an Australian millipede found in 2021 with 1,306 legs.
Who acts: centipede, legs, known animal · What happens: have, know, be, find · To what, where: 100 legs, 15 pairs, Australian millipede, 2021
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 (centipede, legs, known animal), 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 | No | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 2 centipede | det |
| 2 | centipede | centipede | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 has | nsubj |
| 3 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | exactly | exactly | ADV | _ | 5 100 | advmod |
| 5 | 100 | 100 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 6 legs | nummod |
| 6 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 has | obj |
| 7 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 9 have | punct |
| 8 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 have | nsubj |
| 9 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 has | parataxis |
| 10 | from | from | ADP | _ | 14 pairs | case |
| 11 | 15 | 15 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 14 pairs | nummod |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 191 | case |
| 13 | 191 | 191 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 11 15 | nmod |
| 14 | pairs | pair | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 have | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 number | punct |
| 16 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 19 number | advmod |
| 17 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 number | det |
| 18 | odd | odd | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 number | amod |
| 19 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 pairs | appos |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 pairs | case |
| 21 | pairs | pair | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 number | nmod |
| 22 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 30 millipede | punct |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 animal | det |
| 24 | leggiest | leggy | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 25 known | compound |
| 25 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 26 animal | amod |
| 26 | animal | animal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 millipede | nsubj |
| 27 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 millipede | cop |
| 28 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 millipede | det |
| 29 | Australian | Australian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 millipede | amod |
| 30 | millipede | millipede | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 has | parataxis |
| 31 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 30 millipede | acl |
| 32 | in | in | ADP | _ | 33 2021 | case |
| 33 | 2021 | 2021 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 31 found | obl |
| 34 | with | with | ADP | _ | 36 legs | case |
| 35 | 1,306 | 1,306 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 36 legs | nummod |
| 36 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 found | obl |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 has | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | no centipede | 100 legs | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leg=Patient | ||||
| 2 | have | present | legs = leg | 15 pairs | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | know | participle | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 4 | is a | present | the known animal | a Australian millipede | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | find | participle | a Australian millipede not said here | 2021 | with 1,306 legs | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent |
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:15.
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 ×2. 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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