--- title: Ants, bees, beetles and butterflies are insects; snails, worms, wood… — Groups of animals and how to tell them apart · tree and pragmatics description: Ants, bees, beetles and butterflies are insects; snails, worms, woodlice and scorpions have no backbone either but are not insects: a woodlouse has fourteen legs and a scorpion has eight. Who acts: Ants, snails, woodlouse, scorpion. A sentence of the lesson «Groups of animals and how to tell them ap --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/24-animal-groups/18/) [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/) / [World](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/) / [Groups of animals and how to tell them…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/24-animal-groups/) / 18 # Groups of animals and how to tell them apart, sentence 18 Ants, bees, beetles and butterflies are insects; snails, worms, woodlice and scorpions have no backbone either but are not insects: a woodlouse has fourteen legs and a scorpion has eight. **Who acts:** Ants, snails, woodlouse, scorpion · **What happens:** be, have, not be · **To what, where:** insects, backbone, fourteen legs, eight This is a sentence of the lesson «Groups of animals and how to tell them apart» of the world 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 (Ants, snails, woodlouse, scorpion), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:world:024-animal-groups.lesson:18 # text = Ants, bees, beetles and butterflies are insects; snails, worms, woodlice and scorpions have no backbone either but are not insects: a woodlouse has fourteen legs and a scorpion has eight. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = world # lesson = 024-animal-groups.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): R3-conj-first ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Ants ant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 nsubj _ _ 2 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 3 bees bee NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 conj _ _ 4 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 5 beetles beetle NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 conj _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 7 butterflies butterfly NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 conj _ _ 8 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 cop _ _ 9 insects insect NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 parataxis _ _ 10 ; ; PUNCT : _ 11 punct _ _ 11 snails snail NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 nsubj _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 13 worms worm NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 conj _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 15 woodlice woodlice NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=11:conj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 17 scorpions scorpion NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=15:conj 18 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 19 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 20 det _ _ 20 backbone backbone NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obj _ _ 21 either either ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 22 but but CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 23 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 cop _ _ 24 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 25 advmod _ _ 25 insects insect NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 conj _ _ 26 : : PUNCT : _ 29 punct _ _ 27 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 woodlouse woodlouse NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nsubj _ _ 29 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 parataxis _ _ 30 fourteen fourteen NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 31 nummod _ _ 31 legs leg NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 obj _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 33 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 scorpion scorpion NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 nsubj _ _ 35 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 29 conj _ _ 36 eight eight NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 35 obj _ _ 37 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=18: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 | **is a** | present | Ants and bees and beetles and butterflies | insects | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **have** | present | snails and worms and woodlice and scorpions | no backbone | | | | either *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent backbone=Patient | | 3 | **not** **is a** | present | snails and worms and woodlice and scorpions *not said here* | insects | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **have** | present | a woodlouse | fourteen legs | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leg=Patient | | 5 | **have** | present | a scorpion | eight | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eight=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:world:024-animal-groups.lesson:18`. **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): R3-conj-first ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, 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/). - ← previous: [Groups of animals and how to tell them…, 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/24-animal-groups/17/) - next →: [Life cycles, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/25-life-cycles/0/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/24-animal-groups/)