--- title: Giant tropical centipedes hunt insects, spiders and even small frogs… — The rainforest from below: understorey and fores… · tree and pragmatics description: Giant tropical centipedes hunt insects, spiders and even small frogs and mice at night; their first pair of legs are hollow venom fangs, so they must never be handled. Who acts: Giant tropical centipedes, first pair. A sentence of the lesson «The rainforest from below: understorey and forest floor» --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/3-the-rainforest-from-below/14/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/) / [The rainforest from below: understorey…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/3-the-rainforest-from-below/) / 14 # The rainforest from below: understorey and forest floor, sentence 14 Giant tropical centipedes hunt insects, spiders and even small frogs and mice at night; their first pair of legs are hollow venom fangs, so they must never be handled. **Who acts:** Giant tropical centipedes, first pair · **What happens:** hunt, be, not handle · **To what, where:** insects, hollow venom fangs, pairs This is a sentence of the lesson «The rainforest from below: understorey and forest floor» 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 (Giant tropical centipedes, first pair), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:003-the-rainforest-from-below.lesson:14 # text = Giant tropical centipedes hunt insects, spiders and even small frogs and mice at night; their first pair of legs are hollow venom fangs, so they must never be handled. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 003-the-rainforest-from-below.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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Giant giant ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 2 tropical tropical ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 centipedes centipede NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 4 hunt hunt VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 insects insect NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obj _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 7 spiders spider NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 conj _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 9 even even ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:advmod 10 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 frogs frog NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 conj _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 13 mice mouse NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 conj _ _ 14 at at ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 night night NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 16 ; ; PUNCT : _ 25 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=4:punct 17 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 19 nmod:poss _ _ 18 first first ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 19 amod _ _ 19 pair pair NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nsubj _ _ 20 of of ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 legs leg NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 nmod _ _ 22 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 cop _ _ 23 hollow hollow ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 24 venom venom NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 compound _ _ 25 fangs fang NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj 26 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 27 so so ADV RB _ 32 advmod _ _ 28 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 nsubj _ _ 29 must must AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 32 aux _ _ 30 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 32 advmod _ _ 31 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 32 aux:pass _ _ 32 handled handle VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 conj _ _ 33 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **hunt** | present | Giant tropical centipedes | insects and spiders and small frogs and mice | | | night | | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent insect=Theme | | 2 | **is a** | present | frogs's first pair of legs | hollow venom fangs | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **not** **handle** | must · passive | | pairs *= pair* | | | | | vn hold-15.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | 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](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:003-the-rainforest-from-below.lesson:14`. **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): R2-punct-next ×1, 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/). - ← previous: [The rainforest from below: understorey…, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/3-the-rainforest-from-below/13/) - next →: [The rainforest from below: understorey…, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/3-the-rainforest-from-below/15/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/3-the-rainforest-from-below/)