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title: Insects have no lungs: air enters through little holes along the sid… — Insects: six legs, three parts; ants, bees and w… · tree and pragmatics
description: Insects have no lungs: air enters through little holes along the sides called spiracles and travels down branching tubes to every part, which only works well over short distances, one reason insects stay small. Who acts: Insects, air, sides, part. A sentence of the lesson «Insects: six legs, three p
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# Insects: six legs, three parts; ants, bees and wasps, sentence 7

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Insects have no lungs: air enters through little holes along the sides called spiracles and travels down branching tubes to every part, which only works well over short distances, one reason insects stay small.

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**Who acts:** Insects, air, sides, part · **What happens:** have, enter, call, travel down, branch, work · **To what, where:** lungs, little holes, spiracles, branching tubes, one reason · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Insects, air, sides, part), 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:7
# text = Insects have no lungs: air enters through little holes along the sides called spiracles and travels down branching tubes to every part, which only works well over short distances, one reason insects stay small.
# 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, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Insects	insect	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	4	det	_	_
4	lungs	lung	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
5	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	7	punct	_	_
6	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	enters	enter	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
8	through	through	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	holes	hole	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
11	along	along	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	sides	side	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nmod	_	_
14	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	acl	_	_
15	spiracles	spiracle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	xcomp	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	travels	travel	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
18	down	down	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
19	branching	branch	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	20	compound	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=20:amod
20	tubes	tube	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obj	_	_
21	to	to	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	23	det	_	_
23	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
25	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	27	nsubj	_	_
26	only	only	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
27	works	work	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	acl:relcl	_	_
28	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	27	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=31:advmod
29	over	over	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	short	short	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	distances	distance	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obl	_	_
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
33	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	34	nummod	_	_
34	reason	reason	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	appos	_	_
35	insects	insect	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	nsubj	_	_
36	stay	stay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	34	acl	_	_
37	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	xcomp	_	_
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **have** | present | Insects | no lungs |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lung=Patient |
| 2 | **enter** | present | air |  |  | little holes along the sides |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme through hole=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **call** | participle | the sides *not said here* | spiracles |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **travel down** | present | air *not said here* | branching tubes |  |  |  | to every part; down *property* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme tube=Trajectory |
| 5 | **branch** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn differ-23.4 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **work** | present | every part |  |  |  |  | over short distances; well *property* | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **stay** | infinitive | insects | one reason *not said here* |  |  |  | small *property* | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme reason=Location |

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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:7`.

**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, 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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