--- title: In cartoons a centipede always has exactly 100 legs and wears 100 sh… — The rainforest from below: understorey and fores… · tree and pragmatics description: In cartoons a centipede always has exactly 100 legs and wears 100 shoes; a real centipede never has exactly 100 legs, because it always has an odd number of pairs, such as 15, 21 or 23 pairs. Who acts: centipede, real centipede. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (centipede, real centipede), 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:4 # text = In cartoons a centipede always has exactly 100 legs and wears 100 shoes; a real centipede never has exactly 100 legs, because it always has an odd number of pairs, such as 15, 21 or 23 pairs. # 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): R5-strong ×3, R6-punct-agree ×1 1 In in ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 cartoons cartoon NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obl _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 centipede centipede NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 5 always always ADV RB PronType=Tot 6 advmod _ _ 6 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 exactly exactly ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 8 100 100 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 9 nummod _ _ 9 legs leg NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obj _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 11 wears wear VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 12 100 100 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 13 nummod _ _ 13 shoes shoe NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 obj _ _ 14 ; ; PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 16 real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 centipede centipede NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nsubj _ _ 18 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 19 advmod _ _ 19 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 parataxis _ _ 20 exactly exactly ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 21 100 100 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 22 nummod _ _ 22 legs leg NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 obj _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 24 because because SCONJ IN _ 27 mark _ _ 25 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 26 always always ADV RB PronType=Tot 27 advmod _ _ 27 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 advcl _ _ 28 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 29 odd odd ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 30 number number NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obj _ _ 31 of of ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 32 pairs pair NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 nmod _ _ 33 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 34 such such ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP 36 case _ _ 35 as as ADP IN _ 34 fixed _ _ 36 15 15 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 41 nummod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=30:nmod 37 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=41:punct 38 21 21 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 36 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=41:nummod 39 or or CCONJ CC _ 40 cc _ _ 40 23 23 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 38 conj _ _ 41 pairs pair NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 nmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=36:conj 42 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | present | a centipede | 100 legs | | cartoons | | always *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leg=Patient | | 2 | **wear** | present | a centipede *not said here* | 100 shoes | | | | | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent shoe=Theme | | 3 | **not** **have** | present | a real centipede | 100 legs | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leg=Patient | | 4 | **have** | present | centipede | a odd number of pairs 15 pairs | | | | always *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent number=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](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. 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