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title: Count a beetle on a leaf: three legs on each side, six in all, and e… — Counting animals: legs, arms, wings and tails · tree and pragmatics
description: Count a beetle on a leaf: three legs on each side, six in all, and every one of them grows from the middle part of its body, the thorax, one pair on each of its three sections, as in every adult insect. Who acts: you, one, pair. A sentence of the lesson «Counting animals: legs, arms, wings and tails
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# Counting animals: legs, arms, wings and tails, sentence 1

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Count a beetle on a leaf: three legs on each side, six in all, and every one of them grows from the middle part of its body, the thorax, one pair on each of its three sections, as in every adult insect.

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**Who acts:** you, one, pair · **What happens:** count, grow, section · **To what, where:** beetle, leaf, thorax

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Counting animals: legs, arms, wings and tails» 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 (you, one, pair), 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:1
# text = Count a beetle on a leaf: three legs on each side, six in all, and every one of them grows from the middle part of its body, the thorax, one pair on each of its three sections, as in every adult insect.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Count	count	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	beetle	beetle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	on	on	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	leaf	leaf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
7	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	_
8	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	_
9	legs	leg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	_
10	on	on	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	12	det	_	_
12	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	six	six	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	9	appos	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	14	nmod	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
19	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	20	det	_	_
20	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nmod	_	_
23	grows	grow	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=1:advcl
24	from	from	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	middle	middle	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
30	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	_
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	thorax	thorax	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
35	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	36	nummod	_	_
36	pair	pair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	conj	_	_
37	on	on	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	36	nmod	_	_
39	of	of	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
40	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	42	nmod:poss	_	_
41	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	42	nummod	_	_
42	sections	section	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	38	nmod	_	_
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	48	punct	_	_
44	as	as	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
45	in	in	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
46	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	48	det	_	_
47	adult	adult	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	48	amod	_	_
48	insect	insect	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	parataxis	_	_
49	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	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 | **count** | imperative | you *not said here* | a beetle |  | a leaf  three legs on each side |  |  | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beetle=Theme |
| 2 | **grow** | present | every one of legs | the thorax and one pair on each |  |  |  | from the middle part of part's body | vn grow-26.2.1 «NP.product V PP.patient»: agent=Product from part=Patient |
| 3 | **section** |  | pair |  |  |  |  |  | nom section «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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 ×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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