--- title: Names can trick you: a centipede never has exactly a hundred legs, m… — Counting animals: legs, arms, wings and tails · tree and pragmatics description: Names can trick you: a centipede never has exactly a hundred legs, most millipedes have far fewer than a thousand, and a starfish is not a fish and can have five arms or twenty-four. Who acts: Names, centipede, most millipedes, starfish. 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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 (Names, centipede, most millipedes, starfish), 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:3 # text = Names can trick you: a centipede never has exactly a hundred legs, most millipedes have far fewer than a thousand, and a starfish is not a fish and can have five arms or twenty-four. # 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 ×4, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Names name NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 2 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 3 aux _ _ 3 trick trick VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 4 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 3 obj _ _ 5 : : PUNCT : _ 9 punct _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 centipede centipede NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 8 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 9 advmod _ _ 9 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:advcl 10 exactly exactly ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:advmod 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:det 12 hundred hundred NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 13 nummod _ _ 13 legs leg NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obj _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 15 most most ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 16 amod _ _ 16 millipedes millipede NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 nsubj _ _ 17 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 18 far far ADV RB Degree=Pos 19 advmod _ _ 19 fewer few ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 17 obj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=22:advmod 20 than than ADP IN _ 19 fixed _ _ 21 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 thousand thousand NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 19 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=17:obj 23 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 25 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 starfish starfish NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nsubj _ _ 27 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 30 cop _ _ 28 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 30 advmod _ _ 29 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 fish fish NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 parataxis _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 32 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 33 aux _ _ 33 have have VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 30 conj _ _ 34 five five NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 35 nummod _ _ 35 arms arm NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 obj _ _ 36 or or CCONJ CC _ 39 cc _ _ 37 twenty twenty NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 39 compound _ _ 38 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 39 punct _ _ 39 four four NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 35 conj _ _ 40 . . 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 | **trick** | can | Names | you | | | | | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Patient | | 2 | **not** **have** | present | a centipede | hundred legs | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leg=Patient | | 3 | **have** | present | most millipedes | fewer | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent few=Patient | | 4 | **not** **is a** | present | a starfish | a fish | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **have** | can | a starfish *not said here* | five arms | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent arm=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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