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A sentence of the lesson «Beetles: the biggest group of animals on Earth, wing cases and six legs» of the bio --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/306-beetles-the-biggest-group-of-animals-on-earth-wing-cases-and-six-legs/9/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/) / [Beetles: the biggest group of animals…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/306-beetles-the-biggest-group-of-animals-on-earth-wing-cases-and-six-legs/) / 9 # Beetles: the biggest group of animals on Earth, wing cases and six legs, sentence 9 Haldane is said to have joked that the creator had «an inordinate fondness for beetles», which means he must love beetles far more than anything else. **Who acts:** creator, inordinate fondness · **What happens:** say, joke, have, mean, love · **To what, where:** Haldane, inordinate fondness, beetles · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (creator, inordinate fondness), 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:9 # text = Haldane is said to have joked that the creator had «an inordinate fondness for beetles», which means he must love beetles far more than anything else. # 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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Haldane Haldane PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj:pass _ _ 2 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 aux:pass _ _ 3 said say VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 4 to to PART TO _ 6 mark _ _ 5 have have AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 6 aux _ _ 6 joked joke VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 3 xcomp _ _ 7 that that SCONJ IN _ 10 mark _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 creator creator NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 10 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 ccomp _ _ 11 « « PUNCT `` _ 14 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=14:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_ 12 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 13 inordinate inordinate ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 fondness fondness NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ _ 15 for for ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 beetles beetle NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 nmod _ _ 17 » » PUNCT '' _ 14 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=20:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 19 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 20 nsubj _ _ 20 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 advcl:relcl _ _ 21 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 22 must must AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 23 aux _ _ 23 love love VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 20 ccomp _ _ 24 beetles beetle NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 obj _ _ 25 far far ADV RB Degree=Pos 26 advmod _ _ 26 more more ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 23 advmod _ _ 27 than than ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 28 anything anything PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 26 obl _ _ 29 else else ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present · passive | | Haldane | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **joke** *speech: other* | to-infinitive · perfect | | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **have** | past | the creator | a inordinate fondness | | | | for beetles | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fondness=Patient | | 4 | **mean** | present | a inordinate fondness | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 5 | **love** | must | creator | beetles | | | | | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer beetle=Stimulus | 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:9`. **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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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