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title: No centipede has exactly 100 legs: they have from 15 to 191 pairs, a… — Counting animals: eyes, ears, hearts, trunks, te… · tree and pragmatics
description: No centipede has exactly 100 legs: they have from 15 to 191 pairs, always an odd number of pairs; the leggiest known animal is an Australian millipede found in 2021 with 1,306 legs. Who acts: centipede, legs, known animal. A sentence of the lesson «Counting animals: eyes, ears, hearts, trunks, tenta
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# Counting animals: eyes, ears, hearts, trunks, tentacles, teeth, sentence 15

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No centipede has exactly 100 legs: they have from 15 to 191 pairs, always an odd number of pairs; the leggiest known animal is an Australian millipede found in 2021 with 1,306 legs.

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**Who acts:** centipede, legs, known animal · **What happens:** have, know, be, find · **To what, where:** 100 legs, 15 pairs, Australian millipede, 2021

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Counting animals: eyes, ears, hearts, trunks, tentacles, teeth» 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 (centipede, legs, known animal), 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:15
# text = No centipede has exactly 100 legs: they have from 15 to 191 pairs, always an odd number of pairs; the leggiest known animal is an Australian millipede found in 2021 with 1,306 legs.
# 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 ×2
1	No	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	2	det	_	_
2	centipede	centipede	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	exactly	exactly	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	100	100	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
6	legs	leg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
7	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	_
8	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj
10	from	from	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
11	15	15	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	14	nummod	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	191	191	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	11	nmod	_	_
14	pairs	pair	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	19	advmod	_	_
17	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	odd	odd	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	number	number	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	appos	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:obl
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	pairs	pair	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nmod	_	_
22	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
24	leggiest	leggy	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	25	compound	_	_
25	known	know	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	26	amod	_	_
26	animal	animal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	_
27	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	30	cop	_	_
28	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	Australian	Australian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	millipede	millipede	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj
31	found	find	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	30	acl	_	_
32	in	in	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	2021	2021	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	31	obl	_	_
34	with	with	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	1,306	1,306	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	36	nummod	_	_
36	legs	leg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	obl	_	_
37	.	.	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 | no centipede | 100 legs |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leg=Patient |
| 2 | **have** | present | legs *= leg* |  |  | 15 pairs |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **know** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **is a** | present | the known animal | a Australian millipede |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **find** | participle |  | a Australian millipede *not said here* |  | 2021 |  | with 1,306 legs | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: 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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**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 ×2. **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.

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