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title: Many beetles have five segments on each foot, others four or three,… — Beetles: the biggest group of animals on Earth,… · tree and pragmatics
description: Many beetles have five segments on each foot, others four or three, and each foot ends in two tiny claws; scientists count the segments to sort beetles into families. Who acts: Many beetles, foot, scientists. A sentence of the lesson «Beetles: the biggest group of animals on Earth, wing cases and si
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# Beetles: the biggest group of animals on Earth, wing cases and six legs, sentence 11

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Many beetles have five segments on each foot, others four or three, and each foot ends in two tiny claws; scientists count the segments to sort beetles into families.

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**Who acts:** Many beetles, foot, scientists · **What happens:** have, end, count, sort · **To what, where:** five segments, foot, two tiny claws, segments, beetles, families

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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 (Many beetles, foot, scientists), 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:11
# text = Many beetles have five segments on each foot, others four or three, and each foot ends in two tiny claws; scientists count the segments to sort beetles into families.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	beetles	beetle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	segments	segment	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
6	on	on	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	8	det	_	_
8	foot	foot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	_
11	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	flat	_	_
12	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	conj	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
16	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	17	det	_	_
17	foot	foot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
18	ends	end	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	22	nummod	_	_
21	tiny	tiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	claws	claw	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	_
23	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	25	punct	_	_
24	scientists	scientist	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nsubj	_	_
25	count	count	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	segments	segment	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obj	_	_
28	to	to	PART	TO	_	29	mark	_	_
29	sort	sort	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	advcl	_	_
30	beetles	beetle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	obj	_	_
31	into	into	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	families	family	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	obl	_	_
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
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## 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 | **have** | present | Many beetles | five segments  others |  | each foot |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent segment=Patient |
| 2 | **end** | present | each foot |  |  | two tiny claws |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 3 | **count** | present | scientists | the segments |  |  |  |  | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent segment=Theme |
| 4 | **sort** | to-infinitive | scientists *not said here* | beetles |  |  |  | into families *goal* | vn classify-29.10 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent beetle=Theme into family=Goal |

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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): 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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