--- title: Millipedes are not insects; most have fewer than 400 legs, two pairs… — The insect house: ants, stick insects, tarantula… · tree and pragmatics description: Millipedes are not insects; most have fewer than 400 legs, two pairs on most body parts, and one found in Australia in 2021 had over 1,300 legs. Who acts: Millipedes, most, one. A sentence of the lesson «The insect house: ants, stick insects, tarantulas and scorpions» of the biology course of Mova's --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/97-the-insect-house-ants-stick-insects-tarantulas-and-scorpions/17/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/) / [The insect house: ants, stick insects,…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/97-the-insect-house-ants-stick-insects-tarantulas-and-scorpions/) / 17 # The insect house: ants, stick insects, tarantulas and scorpions, sentence 17 Millipedes are not insects; most have fewer than 400 legs, two pairs on most body parts, and one found in Australia in 2021 had over 1,300 legs. **Who acts:** Millipedes, most, one · **What happens:** not be, have, find, have over · **To what, where:** insects, 400 legs, Australia, 1,300 legs This is a sentence of the lesson «The insect house: ants, stick insects, tarantulas and scorpions» 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 (Millipedes, most, one), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:097-the-insect-house-ants-stick-insects-tarantulas-and-scorpions.lesson:17 # text = Millipedes are not insects; most have fewer than 400 legs, two pairs on most body parts, and one found in Australia in 2021 had over 1,300 legs. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 097-the-insect-house-ants-stick-insects-tarantulas-and-scorpions.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): no change 1 Millipedes millipede NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 2 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 3 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 4 advmod _ _ 4 insects insect NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 5 ; ; PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 6 most most ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 7 nsubj _ _ 7 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 8 fewer few ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 10 advmod _ _ 9 than than ADP IN _ 8 fixed _ _ 10 400 400 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 11 nummod _ _ 11 legs leg NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obj _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 13 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 14 nummod _ _ 14 pairs pair NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 conj _ _ 15 on on ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 16 most most ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 18 amod _ _ 17 body body NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 compound _ _ 18 parts part NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 nmod _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 21 one one PRON PRP Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 22 found find VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 23 in in ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 Australia Australia PROPN NNP Number=Sing 22 obl _ _ 25 in in ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 2021 2021 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 22 obl _ _ 27 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 28 over over ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ _ 29 1,300 1,300 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 30 nummod _ _ 30 legs leg NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 obj _ _ 31 . . PUNCT . _ 4 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 | **not** **is a** | present | Millipedes | insects | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **have** | present | most | 400 legs and two pairs on most body parts | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leg=Patient | | 3 | **find** | past | one | | | Australia | | in 2021 | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **have over** | past | Millipedes *not said here* | 1,300 legs | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leg=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. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:biology:097-the-insect-house-ants-stick-insects-tarantulas-and-scorpions.lesson:17`. **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): no change. **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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