--- title: Most starfish have 5 arms with a simple eye at the tip of each, some… — Counting animals: eyes, ears, hearts, trunks, te… · tree and pragmatics description: Most starfish have 5 arms with a simple eye at the tip of each, some sun stars have 20 or more, and a starfish can slowly regrow a lost arm, which is why one arm may be shorter; look at rock-pool animals and leave them where they are. Who acts: Most starfish, sun stars, starfish, one arm. 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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 (Most starfish, sun stars, starfish, one arm), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:041-counting-animals.lesson:13 # text = Most starfish have 5 arms with a simple eye at the tip of each, some sun stars have 20 or more, and a starfish can slowly regrow a lost arm, which is why one arm may be shorter; look at rock-pool animals and leave them where they are. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 041-counting-animals.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, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Most most ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 2 amod _ _ 2 starfish starfish NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 5 5 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 5 nummod _ _ 5 arms arm NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ 6 with with ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 8 simple simple ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 eye eye NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 10 at at ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 tip tip NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nmod _ _ 13 of of ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 12 nmod _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 16 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 18 det _ _ 17 sun sun NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 compound _ _ 18 stars star NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 nsubj _ _ 19 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj 20 20 20 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 19 obj _ _ 21 or or CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 22 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 20 conj _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 25 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 starfish starfish NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nsubj _ _ 27 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 29 aux _ _ 28 slowly slowly ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ _ 29 regrow regrow VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 19 conj _ _ 30 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 31 lost lose VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 32 amod _ _ 32 arm arm NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obj _ _ 33 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 34 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 36 nsubj _ _ 35 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 36 cop _ _ 36 why why ADV WRB PronType=Int 29 parataxis _ _ 37 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 38 nummod _ _ 38 arm arm NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 nsubj _ _ 39 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 41 aux _ _ 40 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 41 cop _ _ 41 shorter short ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 36 advcl:relcl _ _ 42 ; ; PUNCT , _ 43 punct _ _ 43 look look VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 29 parataxis _ _ 44 at at ADP IN _ 48 case _ _ 45 rock rock NOUN NN Number=Sing 47 compound _ _ 46 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 45 punct _ _ 47 pool pool NOUN NN Number=Sing 48 compound _ _ 48 animals animal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 43 obl _ _ 49 and and CCONJ CC _ 50 cc _ _ 50 leave leave VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 43 conj _ _ 51 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 50 obj _ _ 52 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 50 advcl _ _ 53 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 54 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=52:nsubj 54 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 52 cop _ _ 55 . . 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 | **have** | present | Most starfish | 5 arms | | | | with a simple eye at the tip of each | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent arm=Patient | | 2 | **have** | present | some sun stars | 20 | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent 20=Patient | | 3 | **regrow** | can | a starfish | a lost arm | | | | slowly *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **lose** | participle | | | | | | | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **is** | present | | | | | | why *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **is** | may | one arm | | | | | short *property* | tree rules | | 7 | **look** | infinitive | | | | | | at pool animals | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at animal=Theme | | 8 | **leave** | infinitive | | arms *= arm* | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | | 9 | **is** | present | | | | | | where *property* | tree rules | 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. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:biology:041-counting-animals.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, R7-rel-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/). - ← previous: [Counting animals: eyes, ears, hearts,…, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/41-counting-animals/12/) - next →: [Counting animals: eyes, ears, hearts,…, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/41-counting-animals/14/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/41-counting-animals/)