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title: A silkworm has six true, pointed legs at the front, like every insec… — The big biology quiz, part 4: everything from le… · tree and pragmatics
description: A silkworm has six true, pointed legs at the front, like every insect, and ten soft stumpy legs further back. Who acts: silkworm. A sentence of the lesson «The big biology quiz, part 4: everything from lessons 301 to 399» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and th
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# The big biology quiz, part 4: everything from lessons 301 to 399, sentence 15

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A silkworm has six true, pointed legs at the front, like every insect, and ten soft stumpy legs further back.

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**Who acts:** silkworm · **What happens:** have, point · **To what, where:** six true pointed legs, front

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The big biology quiz, part 4: everything from lessons 301 to 399» 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 (silkworm), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:400-the-big-biology-quiz-part-4-everything-from-lessons-301-to-399.lesson:15
# text = A silkworm has six true, pointed legs at the front, like every insect, and ten soft stumpy legs further back.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 400-the-big-biology-quiz-part-4-everything-from-lessons-301-to-399.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): R8-pos-agree ×1
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	silkworm	silkworm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	six	six	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
5	true	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
7	pointed	point	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	amod	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=8:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos
8	legs	leg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
9	at	at	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	front	front	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	like	like	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	15	det	_	_
15	insect	insect	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
18	ten	ten	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	21	nummod	_	_
19	soft	soft	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
20	stumpy	stumpy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	legs	leg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	conj	_	_
22	further	further	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	back	back	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | a silkworm | six true pointed legs and ten soft stumpy legs |  | the front |  | like every insect | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leg=Patient |
| 2 | **point** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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:400-the-big-biology-quiz-part-4-everything-from-lessons-301-to-399.lesson:15`.

**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): R8-pos-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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