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title: A ladybird's number of spots shows which kind it is, such as the 7-s… — Insects: six legs, three parts; ants, bees and w… · tree and pragmatics
description: A ladybird's number of spots shows which kind it is, such as the 7-spot or the 2-spot, not how old it is. Who acts: number. A sentence of the lesson «Insects: six legs, three parts; ants, bees and wasps» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ev
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# Insects: six legs, three parts; ants, bees and wasps, sentence 15

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A ladybird's number of spots shows which kind it is, such as the 7-spot or the 2-spot, not how old it is.

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**Who acts:** number · **What happens:** show, be, not be · **To what, where:** kind

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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 (number), 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:15
# text = A ladybird's number of spots shows which kind it is, such as the 7-spot or the 2-spot, not how old it is.
# 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): 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	number	number	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	spots	spot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	_
7	shows	show	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	9	det	_	_
9	kind	kind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
11	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
13	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP	18	case	_	_
14	as	as	ADP	IN	_	13	fixed	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
16	7	7	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	18	nummod	_	_
17	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	16	punct	_	_
18	spot	spot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:appos
19	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
21	2	2	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	23	nummod	_	_
22	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	21	punct	_	_
23	spot	spot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
25	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	27	advmod	_	_
26	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	27	advmod	_	_
27	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	conj	_	_
28	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
29	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	cop	_	_
30	.	.	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 | **show** | present | a ladybird's number of spots |  |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is a** | present | number | which kind |  |  |  | such the 7 spot or the 2 spot | tree rules |
| 3 | **not** **is** | present | number |  |  |  |  | old *property* | tree rules |

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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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**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:036-insects-six-legs-ants-bees-and-wasps.lesson:15`.

**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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