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title: Most millipedes have between about 30 and 400 legs, two pairs on eac… — Counting animals: legs, arms, wings and tails · tree and pragmatics
description: Most millipedes have between about 30 and 400 legs, two pairs on each double section; one found in Australia in 2021 had 1,306 legs. Who acts: Most millipedes, one. A sentence of the lesson «Counting animals: legs, arms, wings and tails» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its depend
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# Counting animals: legs, arms, wings and tails, sentence 10

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Most millipedes have between about 30 and 400 legs, two pairs on each double section; one found in Australia in 2021 had 1,306 legs.

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**Who acts:** Most millipedes, one · **What happens:** have, find · **To what, where:** 30 legs, Australia, 1,306 legs

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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 (Most millipedes, one), 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:10
# text = Most millipedes have between about 30 and 400 legs, two pairs on each double section; one found in Australia in 2021 had 1,306 legs.
# 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): R8-pos-agree ×2
1	Most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	2	amod	_	_
2	millipedes	millipede	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	between	between	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
5	about	about	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	30	30	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	400	400	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	6	conj	_	_
9	legs	leg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	nummod	_	_
12	pairs	pair	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	appos	_	_
13	on	on	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	16	det	_	_
15	double	double	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	section	section	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
17	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
18	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	24	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=24:nsubj|HaikuPos=PRON:PRP:Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs
19	found	find	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	acl	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=18:acl|HaikuPos=VERB:VBD:Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	Australia	Australia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	2021	2021	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	19	obl	_	_
24	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
25	1,306	1,306	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	26	nummod	_	_
26	legs	leg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obj	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | Most millipedes | 30 legs |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leg=Patient |
| 2 | **find** | participle |  |  |  | Australia |  | in 2021 | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **have** | past | one | 1,306 legs |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leg=Patient |

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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): R8-pos-agree ×2. **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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