--- title: A ladybird's spots tell you its kind, not its age: the seven-spot la… — Animal colours: pink flamingos, rare blue animal… · tree and pragmatics description: A ladybird's spots tell you its kind, not its age: the seven-spot ladybird always has seven, and there are 2-spot, 10-spot and 22-spot kinds. Who acts: spots, spot ladybird, 2 spot. 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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 (spots, spot ladybird, 2 spot), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:367-animal-colours-pink-flamingos-rare-blue-animals-white-albinos-and-black-panthers.lesson:17 # text = A ladybird's spots tell you its kind, not its age: the seven-spot ladybird always has seven, and there are 2-spot, 10-spot and 22-spot kinds. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 367-animal-colours-pink-flamingos-rare-blue-animals-white-albinos-and-black-panthers.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 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 spots spot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 5 tell tell VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 5 iobj _ _ 7 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 8 nmod:poss _ _ 8 kind kind NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 10 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 12 advmod _ _ 11 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 12 nmod:poss _ _ 12 age age NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 conj _ _ 13 : : PUNCT : _ 20 punct _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 15 seven seven NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 17 nummod _ _ 16 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 15 punct _ _ 17 spot spot NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 compound _ _ 18 ladybird ladybird NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nsubj _ _ 19 always always ADV RB PronType=Tot 20 advmod _ _ 20 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 21 seven seven NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 20 obj _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 24 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 25 expl _ _ 25 are be VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 conj _ _ 26 2 2 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 28 nummod _ _ 27 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 26 punct _ _ 28 spot spot NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nsubj _ _ 29 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 30 10 10 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 32 nummod _ _ 31 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 30 punct _ _ 32 spot spot NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=28:appos 33 and and CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 34 22 22 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 36 nummod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=37:nummod 35 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 34 punct _ _ 36 spot spot NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 compound _ _ 37 kinds kind NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 conj _ _ 38 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | a ladybird's spots | ladybird's kind and ladybird's age | you | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient kind=Topic | | 2 | **have** | present | the spot ladybird | seven | | | | always *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent seven=Patient | | 3 | **does** | present | 2 spot and 10 spot and spot kinds | | | there | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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:367-animal-colours-pink-flamingos-rare-blue-animals-white-albinos-and-black-panthers.lesson:17`. **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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