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title: About 400,000 kinds of beetle are known, more than any other group o… — Beetles: the biggest group of animals on Earth,… · tree and pragmatics
description: About 400,000 kinds of beetle are known, more than any other group of animals, and there may be a million more still not named. Who acts: million. A sentence of the lesson «Beetles: the biggest group of animals on Earth, wing cases and six legs» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with it
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# Beetles: the biggest group of animals on Earth, wing cases and six legs, sentence 0

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About 400,000 kinds of beetle are known, more than any other group of animals, and there may be a million more still not named.

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**Who acts:** million · **What happens:** know, be, not name · **To what, where:** 400,000 kinds

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Beetles: the biggest group of animals on Earth, wing cases and six legs» 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 (million), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:306-beetles-the-biggest-group-of-animals-on-earth-wing-cases-and-six-legs.lesson:0
# text = About 400,000 kinds of beetle are known, more than any other group of animals, and there may be a million more still not named.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 306-beetles-the-biggest-group-of-animals-on-earth-wing-cases-and-six-legs.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): no change
1	About	about	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	400,000	400,000	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	kinds	kind	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	beetle	beetle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
6	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux:pass	_	_
7	known	know	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	7	advmod	_	_
10	than	than	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	13	det	_	_
12	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	group	group	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nmod	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
18	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	20	expl	_	_
19	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	be	be	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	conj	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	million	million	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	20	nsubj	_	_
23	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	22	conj	_	_
24	still	still	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
25	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	26	advmod	_	_
26	named	name	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	advcl	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **know** | present · passive |  | 400,000 kinds of beetle |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus |
| 2 | **be** | may | a million |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **not** **name** | participle | a million *not said here* |  |  |  | still |  | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=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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**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): no change. **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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