Groups of animals and how to tell them apart, sentence 15
Insects and spiders have no backbone; they have a hard outer skeleton.
Who acts: Insects · What happens: have · To what, where: backbone, hard outer skeleton
This is a sentence of the lesson «Groups of animals and how to tell them apart» of the world 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 (Insects), 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 | Insects | insect | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 have | nsubj |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 spiders | cc |
| 3 | spiders | spider | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Insects | conj |
| 4 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 6 backbone | det |
| 6 | backbone | backbone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 have | 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 | 4 have | parataxis |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 skeleton | det |
| 11 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 skeleton | amod |
| 12 | outer | outer | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 skeleton | amod |
| 13 | skeleton | skeleton | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 have | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 have | 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 | Insects and spiders | no backbone | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent backbone=Patient | ||||
| 2 | have | present | insects = insect | a hard outer skeleton | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent skeleton=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:world:024-animal-groups.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 ×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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