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title: Despite their name, no centipede has exactly one hundred legs, and m… — Spiders and other minibeasts under logs and stones · tree and pragmatics
description: Despite their name, no centipede has exactly one hundred legs, and most millipedes have far fewer than a thousand. Who acts: centipede, legs. A sentence of the lesson «Spiders and other minibeasts under logs and stones» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the 
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# Spiders and other minibeasts under logs and stones, sentence 17

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Despite their name, no centipede has exactly one hundred legs, and most millipedes have far fewer than a thousand.

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**Who acts:** centipede, legs · **What happens:** have, name · **To what, where:** hundred legs

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Spiders and other minibeasts under logs and stones» of the biology 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 (centipede, legs), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:220-spiders-and-other-minibeasts-under-logs-and-stones.lesson:17
# text = Despite their name, no centipede has exactly one hundred legs, and most millipedes have far fewer than a thousand.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 220-spiders-and-other-minibeasts-under-logs-and-stones.lesson
# annotation = 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
1	Despite	despite	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	6	det	_	_
6	centipede	centipede	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	exactly	exactly	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
9	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	compound	_	_
10	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	nummod	_	_
11	legs	leg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
14	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	15	amod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=15:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RBS:Degree=Sup
15	millipedes	millipede	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=18:nsubj
16	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
17	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	18	advmod	_	_
18	fewer	few	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	7	conj	_	_
19	than	than	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	thousand	thousand	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	18	obl	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | no centipede | hundred legs |  |  |  | despite legs's name | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leg=Patient |
| 2 | **name** |  | legs *= leg* |  |  |  |  |  | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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.

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**Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:biology:220-spiders-and-other-minibeasts-under-logs-and-stones.lesson:17`.

**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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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