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title: A bee has four wings, but in flight the front and back wing on each… — Counting animals: legs, arms, wings and tails · tree and pragmatics
description: A bee has four wings, but in flight the front and back wing on each side hook together, so it looks like two. Who acts: bee, front wing. A sentence of the lesson «Counting animals: legs, arms, wings and tails» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics
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# Counting animals: legs, arms, wings and tails, sentence 13

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A bee has four wings, but in flight the front and back wing on each side hook together, so it looks like two.

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**Who acts:** bee, front wing · **What happens:** have, hook, look · **To what, where:** four wings, flight

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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 (bee, front wing), 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:13
# text = A bee has four wings, but in flight the front and back wing on each side hook together, so it looks like two.
# 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, R6-punct-agree ×1
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	bee	bee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	wings	wing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=9:punct
7	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	flight	flight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
11	front	front	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	back	back	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	conj	_	_
14	wing	wing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
15	on	on	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	17	det	_	_
17	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=18:obl
18	hook	hook	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
19	together	together	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	so	so	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
22	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	looks	look	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
24	like	like	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	23	obl	_	_
26	.	.	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 | a bee | four wings |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wing=Patient |
| 2 | **hook** | present | the front wing on each side |  |  | flight |  | together *property* | vn coil-9.6-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **look** | present | bee |  |  |  |  | like two | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |

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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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**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:040-counting-legs-arms-wings-and-tails.lesson:13`.

**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, R6-punct-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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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