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title: There are more known kinds of insects than of all other animals toge… — Insects and spiders · tree and pragmatics
description: There are more known kinds of insects than of all other animals together, and beetles are the biggest group. Who acts: known kinds, beetles. A sentence of the lesson «Insects and spiders» of the world course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Insects and spiders, sentence 12

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There are more known kinds of insects than of all other animals together, and beetles are the biggest group.

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**Who acts:** known kinds, beetles · **What happens:** be, know · **To what, where:** biggest group

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Insects and spiders» 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 (known kinds, beetles), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:world:072-insects-and-spiders.lesson:12
# text = There are more known kinds of insects than of all other animals together, and beetles are the biggest group.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = world
# lesson = 072-insects-and-spiders.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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	are	be	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	4	advmod	_	_
4	known	know	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	amod	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=5:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos
5	kinds	kind	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	insects	insect	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	_
8	than	than	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	12	det	_	_
11	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	_
13	together	together	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:advmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=2:punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
16	beetles	beetle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nsubj	_	_
17	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	biggest	big	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	20	amod	_	_
20	group	group	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **does** | present | known kinds of insects than all other animals |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **know** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **is a** | present | beetles | the biggest group |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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**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:072-insects-and-spiders.lesson:12`.

**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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×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/).

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