--- title: Counting is one of a scientist's best tools: the number of legs, arm… — Counting animals: legs, arms, wings and tails · tree and pragmatics description: Counting is one of a scientist's best tools: the number of legs, arms or wings tells you what kind of animal you are looking at, even when it looks like something else. Who acts: number, you. 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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 (number, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:040-counting-legs-arms-wings-and-tails.lesson:0 # text = Counting is one of a scientist's best tools: the number of legs, arms or wings tells you what kind of animal you are looking at, even when it looks like something else. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 040-counting-legs-arms-wings-and-tails.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 ×2 1 Counting count VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 3 nsubj _ _ 2 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 cop _ _ 3 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ 4 of of ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 scientist scientist NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nmod:poss _ _ 7 's 's PART POS _ 6 case _ _ 8 best good ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 9 amod _ _ 9 tools tool NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nmod _ _ 10 : : PUNCT : _ 12 punct _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 number number NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nsubj _ _ 13 of of ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 legs leg NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 nmod _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 16 arms arm NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 conj _ _ 17 or or CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 18 wings wing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 conj _ _ 19 tells tell VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 acl:relcl _ _ 20 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 19 iobj _ _ 21 what what DET WDT PronType=Int 22 det _ _ 22 kind kind NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=19:obj 23 of of ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 animal animal NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nmod _ _ 25 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 26 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 aux _ _ 27 looking look VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 19 ccomp _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=24:acl:relcl 28 at at ADP IN _ 27 obl _ _ 29 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 30 even even ADV RB _ 33 advmod _ _ 31 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 33 advmod _ _ 32 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 33 nsubj _ _ 33 looks look VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 advcl _ _ 34 like like ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 35 something something PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 33 obl _ _ 36 else else ADV RB _ 35 advmod _ _ 37 . . 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 | **count** | gerund | | | | | | | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus | | 2 | **is a** | present | | one | | | | of a scientist's best tools | tree rules | | 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | the number of legs and arms or wings | a scientist's best tools *not said here* | you | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic | | 4 | **look** | present · progressive | you | what kind of animal | | | | | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 5 | **look** | present | number | | | | | like something | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | 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. 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