Classifying unusual animals, sentence 10

Spiders are not insects: they have eight legs and two body parts; a ladybird, a small spotted beetle, is an insect with six legs.

Who acts: Spiders, Ostriches · What happens: not be, have, spot, be · To what, where: insects, eight legs, insect

This is a sentence of the lesson «Classifying unusual animals» 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 (Spiders, Ostriches), 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	Spiders	spider	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	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 have	nsubj
7	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 insects	parataxis
8	eight	eight	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 legs	nummod
9	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 have	obj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 parts	cc
11	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 parts	nummod
12	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 parts	compound
13	parts	part	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 legs	conj
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 ladybird	punct
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 ladybird	det
16	ladybird	ladybird	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 insects	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 beetle	punct
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 beetle	det
19	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 beetle	amod
20	spotted	spot	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 beetle	amod
21	beetle	beetle	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 ladybird	appos
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 insect	punct
23	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 insect	cop
24	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 insect	det
25	insect	insect	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 insects	parataxis
26	with	with	ADP	_	28 legs	case
27	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	28 legs	nummod
28	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 insect	nmod
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 insects	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not is a	present	Spiders	insects and a ladybird		tree rules
2	have	present	Ostriches = ostrich	eight legs and two body parts		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leg=Patient
3	spot	participle				vn weather-57 «It V PP.theme»
4	is a	present		a insect	with six legs	tree rules

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:029-classifying-unusual-animals.lesson:10.

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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