Groups of animals and how to tell them apart, sentence 18

Ants, bees, beetles and butterflies are insects; snails, worms, woodlice and scorpions have no backbone either but are not insects: a woodlouse has fourteen legs and a scorpion has eight.

Who acts: Ants, snails, woodlouse, scorpion · What happens: be, have, not be · To what, where: insects, backbone, fourteen legs, eight

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 (Ants, snails, woodlouse, scorpion), 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	Ants	ant	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 insects	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 bees	punct
3	bees	bee	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Ants	conj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 beetles	punct
5	beetles	beetle	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Ants	conj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 butterflies	cc
7	butterflies	butterfly	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Ants	conj
8	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 insects	cop
9	insects	insect	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 have	parataxis
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	11 snails	punct
11	snails	snail	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 have	nsubj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 worms	punct
13	worms	worm	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 snails	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 woodlice	punct
15	woodlice	woodlice	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 snails	conj
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 scorpions	cc
17	scorpions	scorpion	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 snails	conj
18	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
19	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	20 backbone	det
20	backbone	backbone	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 have	obj
21	either	either	ADV	_	18 have	advmod
22	but	but	CCONJ	_	25 insects	cc
23	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 insects	cop
24	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	25 insects	advmod
25	insects	insect	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 have	conj
26	:	:	PUNCT	_	29 has	punct
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 woodlouse	det
28	woodlouse	woodlouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 has	nsubj
29	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 have	parataxis
30	fourteen	fourteen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	31 legs	nummod
31	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 has	obj
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 has	cc
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 scorpion	det
34	scorpion	scorpion	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 has	nsubj
35	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 has	conj
36	eight	eight	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	35 has	obj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 insects	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Ants and bees and beetles and butterflies	insects		tree rules
2	have	present	snails and worms and woodlice and scorpions	no backbone	either property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent backbone=Patient
3	not is a	present	snails and worms and woodlice and scorpions not said here	insects		tree rules
4	have	present	a woodlouse	fourteen legs		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leg=Patient
5	have	present	a scorpion	eight		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eight=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:18.

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): R3-conj-first ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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