--- title: Scientists keep the word «bug» for one group of insects with a straw… — Beetles: the biggest group of animals on Earth,… · tree and pragmatics description: Scientists keep the word «bug» for one group of insects with a straw-like mouth; beetles chew, true bugs suck, and a beetle's wing cases meet in a straight line down its back. Who acts: Scientists, beetles, true bugs, wing cases. 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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 (Scientists, beetles, true bugs, wing cases), 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:17 # text = Scientists keep the word «bug» for one group of insects with a straw-like mouth; beetles chew, true bugs suck, and a beetle's wing cases meet in a straight line down its back. # 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 ×2 1 Scientists scientist NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 keep keep VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 word word NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 5 « « PUNCT `` _ 6 punct _ _ 6 bug bug NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 appos _ _ 7 » » PUNCT '' _ 6 punct _ _ 8 for for ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 10 nummod _ _ 10 group group NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 11 of of ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 insects insect NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 nmod _ _ 13 with with ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 15 straw straw NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 compound _ _ 16 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 15 punct _ _ 17 like like ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 mouth mouth NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nmod _ _ 19 ; ; PUNCT : _ 21 punct _ _ 20 beetles beetle NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 nsubj _ _ 21 chew chew VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj 22 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 23 true true ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 24 bugs bug NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 nsubj _ _ 25 suck suck VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 conj _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 28 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 beetle beetle NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 nmod:poss _ _ 30 's 's PART POS _ 29 case _ _ 31 wing wing NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 compound _ _ 32 cases case NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 nsubj _ _ 33 meet meet VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 34 in in ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 35 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 36 straight straight ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 37 amod _ _ 37 line line NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obl _ _ 38 down down ADP RP _ 33 compound:prt _ _ 39 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 40 nmod:poss _ _ 40 back back NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=33:obj 41 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **keep** | present | Scientists | the word | | | | for one group of insects with a like mouth | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Theme | | 2 | **chew** | present | beetles | | | | | | vn chew-39.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **suck** | present | true bugs | | | | | | vn chew-39.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **meet down** | present | a beetle's wing cases | beetle's back | | a straight line | | | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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:306-beetles-the-biggest-group-of-animals-on-earth-wing-cases-and-six-legs.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): R7-rel-agree ×2. **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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