Groups of animals and how to tell them apart, sentence 3

Animals without a backbone are invertebrates: insects have six legs and three body parts (head, thorax, abdomen), while spiders have eight legs and two body parts.

Who acts: Animals, insects, spiders · What happens: be, have · To what, where: invertebrates, six legs, eight legs

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 (Animals, insects, spiders), 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	Animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 invertebrates	nsubj
2	without	without	ADP	_	4 backbone	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 backbone	det
4	backbone	backbone	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Animals	nmod
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 invertebrates	cop
6	invertebrates	invertebrate	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
7	:	:	PUNCT	_	9 have	punct
8	insects	insect	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 have	nsubj
9	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 invertebrates	parataxis
10	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 legs	nummod
11	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 have	obj
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 parts	cc
13	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 parts	nummod
14	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 parts	compound
15	parts	part	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 legs	conj
16	(	(	PUNCT	_	17 head	punct
17	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 parts	appos
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 thorax	punct
19	thorax	thorax	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 head	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 abdomen	punct
21	abdomen	abdomen	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 head	conj
22	)	)	PUNCT	_	17 head	punct
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 have	punct
24	while	while	SCONJ	_	26 have	mark
25	spiders	spider	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 have	nsubj
26	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 have	advcl
27	eight	eight	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	28 legs	nummod
28	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 have	obj
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 parts	cc
30	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	32 parts	nummod
31	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 parts	compound
32	parts	part	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 legs	conj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 invertebrates	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	is a	present	Animals without a backbone	invertebrates	tree rules
2	have	present	insects	six legs and three body parts	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leg=Patient
3	have	present	spiders	eight legs and two body parts	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:world:024-animal-groups.lesson:3.

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): 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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