--- title: Counting legs sorts them out: ants, beetles, mantises and cockroache… — The insect house: ants, stick insects, tarantula… · tree and pragmatics description: Counting legs sorts them out: ants, beetles, mantises and cockroaches have six legs and are insects, while tarantulas and scorpions have eight and are relatives of spiders. Who acts: Counting, ants, tarantulas. 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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 (Counting, ants, tarantulas), 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:2 # text = Counting legs sorts them out: ants, beetles, mantises and cockroaches have six legs and are insects, while tarantulas and scorpions have eight and are relatives of spiders. # 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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Counting count VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 3 csubj _ _ 2 legs leg NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 obj _ _ 3 sorts sort VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 obj _ _ 5 out out ADP RP _ 3 compound:prt _ _ 6 : : PUNCT : _ 7 punct _ _ 7 ants ant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 nsubj _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 9 beetles beetle NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 conj _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 11 mantises mantis NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:appos 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 13 cockroaches cockroach NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 conj _ _ 14 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 15 six six NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 16 nummod _ _ 16 legs leg NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 obj _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 18 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 cop _ _ 19 insects insect NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 conj _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 21 while while SCONJ IN _ 25 mark _ _ 22 tarantulas tarantula NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 nsubj _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 24 scorpions scorpion NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 conj _ _ 25 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 advcl _ _ 26 eight eight NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 25 obj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=29:nummod 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 28 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 29 cop _ _ 29 relatives relative NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=25:obj 30 of of ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 31 spiders spider NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 nmod _ _ 32 . . 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 | **count** | gerund | | legs | | | | | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leg=Theme | | 2 | **sort out** | present | Counting | legs *= leg* | | | | | vn classify-29.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | | 3 | **have** | present | ants and beetles and mantises and cockroaches | six legs | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leg=Patient | | 4 | **is a** | present | ants and beetles and mantises and cockroaches *not said here* | insects | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **have** | present | tarantulas and scorpions | eight | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eight=Patient | | 6 | **is a** | present | tarantulas and scorpions *not said here* | relatives | | | | of spiders | 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:097-the-insect-house-ants-stick-insects-tarantulas-and-scorpions.lesson:2`. **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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