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title: Every adult insect is built on the same plan: six legs and a body in… — Insects: six legs, three parts; ants, bees and w… · tree and pragmatics
description: Every adult insect is built on the same plan: six legs and a body in three parts, a head with eyes and feelers, a thorax where the legs and wings join, and an abdomen at the back. Who acts: legs. A sentence of the lesson «Insects: six legs, three parts; ants, bees and wasps» of the biology course of
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# Insects: six legs, three parts; ants, bees and wasps, sentence 0

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Every adult insect is built on the same plan: six legs and a body in three parts, a head with eyes and feelers, a thorax where the legs and wings join, and an abdomen at the back.

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**Who acts:** legs · **What happens:** build, join · **To what, where:** adult insect, same plan

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Insects: six legs, three parts; ants, bees and wasps» 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 (legs), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:036-insects-six-legs-ants-bees-and-wasps.lesson:0
# text = Every adult insect is built on the same plan: six legs and a body in three parts, a head with eyes and feelers, a thorax where the legs and wings join, and an abdomen at the back.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 036-insects-six-legs-ants-bees-and-wasps.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): R5-strong ×1
1	Every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	3	det	_	_
2	adult	adult	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	insect	insect	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	built	build	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	on	on	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	plan	plan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
10	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
11	six	six	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	nummod	_	_
12	legs	leg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nmod	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	18	nummod	_	_
18	parts	part	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nmod	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:conj
22	with	with	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nmod	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	feelers	feeler	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	conj	_	_
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	thorax	thorax	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
29	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	34	advmod	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	legs	leg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	nsubj	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
33	wings	wing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	conj	_	_
34	join	join	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	acl:relcl	_	_
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
37	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	abdomen	abdomen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
39	at	at	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	back	back	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	nmod	_	_
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **build** | present · passive |  | every adult insect |  | the same plan  six legs in three parts and a body and a head with eyes and feelers and a thorax and a abdomen at the back |  |  | vn base-97.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: subject=Theme on plan=Source |
| 2 | **join** | present | the legs and wings |  |  |  |  |  | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |

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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): R5-strong ×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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