--- title: Most starfish have five arms, but some kinds have more, and the sunf… — Counting animals: legs, arms, wings and tails · tree and pragmatics description: Most starfish have five arms, but some kinds have more, and the sunflower sea star can have up to 24; a lost arm can grow back, and each arm has a small eye at its tip. Who acts: Most starfish, kinds, sea star, lost arm. 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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 (Most starfish, kinds, sea star, lost arm), 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:11 # text = Most starfish have five arms, but some kinds have more, and the sunflower sea star can have up to 24; a lost arm can grow back, and each arm has a small eye at its tip. # 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 ×1 1 Most most ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 2 amod _ _ 2 starfish starfish NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 five five NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 5 nummod _ _ 5 arms arm NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 7 but but CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 8 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 9 det _ _ 9 kinds kind NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 nsubj _ _ 10 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 11 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 10 obj _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 15 sunflower sunflower NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 compound _ _ 16 sea sea NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 compound _ _ 17 star star NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nsubj _ _ 18 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 19 aux _ _ 19 have have VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 conj _ _ 20 up up ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 21 to to ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 24 24 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 19 obl _ _ 23 ; ; PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 24 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 25 lost lose VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 26 amod _ _ 26 arm arm NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nsubj _ _ 27 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 28 aux _ _ 28 grow grow VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 parataxis _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=19:conj 29 back back ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ _ 30 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 32 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 33 det _ _ 33 arm arm NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 nsubj _ _ 34 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 35 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 36 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 37 amod _ _ 37 eye eye NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obj _ _ 38 at at ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 39 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 40 nmod:poss _ _ 40 tip tip NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 nmod _ _ 41 . . PUNCT . _ 3 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 | **have** | present | Most starfish | five arms | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent arm=Patient | | 2 | **have** | present | some kinds | more | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent more=Patient | | 3 | **have up** | can | the sea star | | | | | to 24 | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **lose** | participle | | | | | | | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **grow back** | can | a lost arm | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **have** | present | each arm | a small eye | | star's tip | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Patient | 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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