Legs on birds, and animals with none, sentence 1

A snake has no legs at all, so snakes add nothing to a count of legs.

Who acts: snake, snakes · What happens: have, add · To what, where: legs, all, nothing

This is a sentence of the lesson «Legs on birds, and animals with none» of the lessons 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 (snake, snakes), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 snake	det
2	snake	snake	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 has	nsubj
3	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	5 legs	det
5	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 has	obj
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 all	case
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 legs	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 add	punct
9	so	so	ADV	_	11 add	advmod
10	snakes	snake	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 add	nsubj
11	add	add	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 has	parataxis
12	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	11 add	obj
13	to	to	ADP	_	15 count	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 count	det
15	count	count	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 add	obl
16	of	of	ADP	_	17 legs	case
17	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 count	nmod
18	.	.	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 snake	no legs		all			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leg=Patient
2	add speech: assert	present	snakes	nothing				to a count of legs	vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient to count=Co-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:lessons:203-legs-on-birds-and-animals-with-none.lesson:1.

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.

See the release 0.4.

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