--- title: Centipedes always have an odd number of pairs of legs, from 15 to ov… — Tiny champions: the strongest beetle, the highes… · tree and pragmatics description: Centipedes always have an odd number of pairs of legs, from 15 to over 190, so none has exactly 100 legs, and their front legs are fangs, so never pick up a big one. Who acts: Centipedes, none, front legs. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Centipedes, none, front legs), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:365-tiny-champions-the-strongest-beetle-the-highest-jumping-flea-and-the-leggiest-millipede.lesson:12 # text = Centipedes always have an odd number of pairs of legs, from 15 to over 190, so none has exactly 100 legs, and their front legs are fangs, so never pick up a big one. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 365-tiny-champions-the-strongest-beetle-the-highest-jumping-flea-and-the-leggiest-millipede.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): no change 1 Centipedes centipede NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 2 always always ADV RB PronType=Tot 3 advmod _ _ 3 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 odd odd ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 number number NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 7 of of ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 pairs pair NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nmod _ _ 9 of of ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 legs leg NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 nmod _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 12 from from ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 15 15 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 3 obl _ _ 14 to to ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 over over ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 16 190 190 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 13 nmod _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 18 so so ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 19 none none PRON NN PronType=Neg 20 nsubj _ _ 20 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 21 exactly exactly ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 22 100 100 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 23 nummod _ _ 23 legs leg NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 obj _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 26 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 28 nmod:poss _ _ 27 front front ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 28 legs leg NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 nsubj _ _ 29 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 30 cop _ _ 30 fangs fang NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 conj _ _ 31 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 32 so so ADV RB _ 34 advmod _ _ 33 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 34 advmod _ _ 34 pick pick VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 35 up up ADP RP _ 34 compound:prt _ _ 36 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 37 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 amod _ _ 38 one one NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obj _ _ 39 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | present | Centipedes | a odd number of pairs of legs | | 15 to 190 | | always *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent number=Patient | | 2 | **have** | present | none | 100 legs | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leg=Patient | | 3 | **is a** | present | centipedes's front legs | fangs | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **not** **pick up** | infinitive | | a big one | | | | | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Topic | 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:365-tiny-champions-the-strongest-beetle-the-highest-jumping-flea-and-the-leggiest-millipede.lesson:12`. **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): no change. **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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