--- title: A woodlouse has 14 legs and is a crustacean, related to crabs; a cra… — Counting animals: legs, arms, wings and tails · tree and pragmatics description: A woodlouse has 14 legs and is a crustacean, related to crabs; a crab has ten legs counting its claws, which is why it is called a decapod. Who acts: woodlouse, crab, ten legs. A sentence of the lesson «Counting animals: legs, arms, wings and tails» of the biology course of Mova's primary school wit --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/40-counting-legs-arms-wings-and-tails/15/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/) / [Counting animals: legs, arms, wings an…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/40-counting-legs-arms-wings-and-tails/) / 15 # Counting animals: legs, arms, wings and tails, sentence 15 A woodlouse has 14 legs and is a crustacean, related to crabs; a crab has ten legs counting its claws, which is why it is called a decapod. **Who acts:** woodlouse, crab, ten legs · **What happens:** have, be, count, call · **To what, where:** 14 legs, crustacean, ten legs, claws, woodlouse · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (woodlouse, crab, ten legs), 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:15 # text = A woodlouse has 14 legs and is a crustacean, related to crabs; a crab has ten legs counting its claws, which is why it is called a decapod. # 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 ×2 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 woodlouse woodlouse NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 14 14 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 5 nummod _ _ 5 legs leg NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 7 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 cop _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 crustacean crustacean NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 conj _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 11 related related ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:acl 12 to to ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 crabs crab NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 obl _ _ 14 ; ; PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 crab crab NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nsubj _ _ 17 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj 18 ten ten NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 19 nummod _ _ 19 legs leg NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 obj _ _ 20 counting count VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 19 acl _ _ 21 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 22 nmod:poss _ _ 22 claws claw NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 obj _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 24 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 26 nsubj _ _ 25 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 cop _ _ 26 why why ADV WRB PronType=Int 20 conj _ _ 27 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj:pass _ _ 28 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 29 aux:pass _ _ 29 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 26 advcl:relcl _ _ 30 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 decapod decapod NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 xcomp _ _ 32 . . 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 | **have** | present | a woodlouse | 14 legs | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leg=Patient | | 2 | **is a** | present | a woodlouse *not said here* | a crustacean | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **have** | present | a crab | ten legs | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leg=Patient | | 4 | **count** | gerund | ten legs *not said here* | crab's claws | | | | | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent claw=Theme | | 5 | **is** | present | | | | | | why *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **call** | present · passive | | woodlouse | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | 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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