The insect house: ants, stick insects, tarantulas and scorpions, sentence 17

Millipedes are not insects; most have fewer than 400 legs, two pairs on most body parts, and one found in Australia in 2021 had over 1,300 legs.

Who acts: Millipedes, most, one · What happens: not be, have, find, have over · To what, where: insects, 400 legs, Australia, 1,300 legs

This is a sentence of the lesson «The insect house: ants, stick insects, tarantulas and scorpions» 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 (Millipedes, most, one), 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	Millipedes	millipede	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 insects	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 insects	cop
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 insects	advmod
4	insects	insect	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	;	;	PUNCT	_	7 have	punct
6	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	7 have	nsubj
7	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 insects	parataxis
8	fewer	few	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	10 400	advmod
9	than	than	ADP	_	8 fewer	fixed
10	400	400	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	11 legs	nummod
11	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 have	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 pairs	punct
13	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 pairs	nummod
14	pairs	pair	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 legs	conj
15	on	on	ADP	_	18 parts	case
16	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	18 parts	amod
17	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 parts	compound
18	parts	part	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 pairs	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 found	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 found	cc
21	one	one	PRON	Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 found	nsubj
22	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 have	conj
23	in	in	ADP	_	24 Australia	case
24	Australia	Australia	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 found	obl
25	in	in	ADP	_	26 2021	case
26	2021	2021	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	22 found	obl
27	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 insects	conj
28	over	over	ADV	_	29 1,300	advmod
29	1,300	1,300	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	30 legs	nummod
30	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 had	obj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 insects	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	not is a	present	Millipedes	insects			tree rules
2	have	present	most	400 legs and two pairs on most body parts			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leg=Patient
3	find	past	one		Australia	in 2021	vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
4	have over	past	Millipedes not said here	1,300 legs			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leg=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:097-the-insect-house-ants-stick-insects-tarantulas-and-scorpions.lesson:17.

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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