--- title: Centipedes have one pair of legs on each body section and always an… — Counting animals: legs, arms, wings and tails · tree and pragmatics description: Centipedes have one pair of legs on each body section and always an odd number of pairs, so no centipede has exactly 100 legs; the common brown garden centipede has 30. Who acts: Centipedes, centipede, common brown garden centipede. 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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 (Centipedes, centipede, common brown garden centipede), 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:9 # text = Centipedes have one pair of legs on each body section and always an odd number of pairs, so no centipede has exactly 100 legs; the common brown garden centipede has 30. # 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 ×1 1 Centipedes centipede NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 4 nummod _ _ 4 pair pair NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 5 of of ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 legs leg NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nmod _ _ 7 on on ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 8 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 10 det _ _ 9 body body NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 compound _ _ 10 section section NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nmod _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 12 always always ADV RB PronType=Tot 15 advmod _ _ 13 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 14 odd odd ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 number number NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 conj _ _ 16 of of ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 pairs pair NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 nmod _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 19 so so ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 20 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 21 det _ _ 21 centipede centipede NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nsubj _ _ 22 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 23 exactly exactly ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 24 100 100 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 25 nummod _ _ 25 legs leg NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 obj _ _ 26 ; ; PUNCT : _ 32 punct _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 28 common common ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 amod _ _ 29 brown brown ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 amod _ _ 30 garden garden NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 compound _ _ 31 centipede centipede NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 nsubj _ _ 32 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj 33 30 30 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 32 obj _ _ 34 . . PUNCT . _ 2 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 | Centipedes | one pair of legs on each body section and a odd number of pairs | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pair=Patient | | 2 | **have** | present | no centipede | 100 legs | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leg=Patient | | 3 | **have** | present | the common brown garden centipede | 30 | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent 30=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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