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title: Every adult insect has six legs and a body in three parts: head, tho… — Insects: six legs, three parts; ants, bees and w… · tree and pragmatics
description: Every adult insect has six legs and a body in three parts: head, thorax and abdomen; the legs and wings are all fixed to the thorax. Who acts: adult insect. 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 depende
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# Insects: six legs, three parts; ants, bees and wasps, sentence 5

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Every adult insect has six legs and a body in three parts: head, thorax and abdomen; the legs and wings are all fixed to the thorax.

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**Who acts:** adult insect · **What happens:** have, fix · **To what, where:** six legs, legs

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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 (adult insect), 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:5
# text = Every adult insect has six legs and a body in three parts: head, thorax and abdomen; the legs and wings are all fixed to the thorax.
# 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 ×2
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	4	nsubj	_	_
4	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	six	six	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
6	legs	leg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	nummod	_	_
12	parts	part	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nmod	_	_
13	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
14	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	appos	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	thorax	thorax	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=14:appos
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	abdomen	abdomen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	_
19	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	26	punct	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	legs	leg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nsubj:pass	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	wings	wing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	conj	_	_
24	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux:pass	_	_
25	all	all	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	fixed	fix	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj
27	to	to	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	thorax	thorax	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | every adult insect | six legs and a body in three parts |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leg=Patient |
| 2 | **fix** | present · passive |  | the legs and wings |  |  |  | to the thorax; all *property* | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP PP»: subject=Patient to thorax=Co-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): 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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