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title: A ladybird's spots do not show its age; they show its kind, so a sev… — Beetles: the biggest group of animals on Earth,… · tree and pragmatics
description: A ladybird's spots do not show its age; they show its kind, so a seven-spot ladybird always has seven, and the bright colours warn birds that it tastes bad. Who acts: spots, spot ladybird, bright colours, beetle. A sentence of the lesson «Beetles: the biggest group of animals on Earth, wing cases an
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# Beetles: the biggest group of animals on Earth, wing cases and six legs, sentence 18

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A ladybird's spots do not show its age; they show its kind, so a seven-spot ladybird always has seven, and the bright colours warn birds that it tastes bad.

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**Who acts:** spots, spot ladybird, bright colours, beetle · **What happens:** not show, show, have, warn, taste · **To what, where:** age, kind, seven, birds · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (spots, spot ladybird, bright colours, beetle), 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:18
# text = A ladybird's spots do not show its age; they show its kind, so a seven-spot ladybird always has seven, and the bright colours warn birds that it tastes bad.
# 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	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	ladybird	ladybird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	_
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	spots	spot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
5	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
6	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	7	advmod	_	_
7	show	show	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	age	age	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	show	show	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
13	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	kind	kind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
16	so	so	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
18	seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	20	nummod	_	_
19	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	18	punct	_	_
20	spot	spot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	ladybird	ladybird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
22	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	23	advmod	_	_
23	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:conj
24	seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	23	obj	_	_
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	bright	bright	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	colours	colour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	nsubj	_	_
30	warn	warn	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
31	birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	obj	_	_
32	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	34	mark	_	_
33	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	nsubj	_	_
34	tastes	taste	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	30	ccomp	_	_
35	bad	bad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	xcomp	_	_
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **show** | present · do-support | a ladybird's spots | beetle's age |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent age=Recipient |
| 2 | **show** | present | spots *= spot* | beetle's kind |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent kind=Recipient |
| 3 | **have** | present | a spot ladybird | seven |  |  |  | always *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent seven=Patient |
| 4 | **warn** *speech: warn* | present | the bright colours |  | birds |  |  |  | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient that S»: agent=Agent bird=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 5 | **taste** | present | beetle |  |  |  |  | bad *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |

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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.

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