Antarctica: emperor huddles, krill, clear-blooded fish and stone-stealing penguins, sentence 13

The Antarctic midge is a tiny wingless fly only a few millimetres long, smaller than a grain of rice, and it is the largest land animal living all year in Antarctica.

Who acts: Antarctic midge, midge, largest land animal · What happens: be, live · To what, where: tiny wingless fly, largest land animal, Antarctica

This is a sentence of the lesson «Antarctica: emperor huddles, krill, clear-blooded fish and stone-stealing penguins» 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 (Antarctic midge, midge, largest land animal), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 midge	det
2	Antarctic	Antarctic	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 midge	compound
3	midge	midge	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 fly	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 fly	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 fly	det
6	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 fly	amod
7	wingless	wingless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 fly	amod
8	fly	fly	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	only	only	ADV	_	12 millimetres	advmod
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 millimetres	det
11	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 millimetres	amod
12	millimetres	millimetre	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 long	obl:unmarked
13	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 fly	amod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 smaller	punct
15	smaller	small	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	8 fly	amod
16	than	than	ADP	_	18 grain	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 grain	det
18	grain	grain	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 smaller	obl
19	of	of	ADP	_	20 rice	case
20	rice	rice	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 grain	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 animal	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 animal	cc
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 animal	nsubj
24	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 animal	cop
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 animal	det
26	largest	large	ADJ	Degree=Sup	28 animal	amod
27	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 animal	compound
28	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 fly	conj
29	living	live	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	28 animal	acl
30	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	31 year	det
31	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 living	obl:unmarked
32	in	in	ADP	_	33 Antarctica	case
33	Antarctica	Antarctica	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 living	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 fly	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	is a	present	the Antarctic midge	a tiny wingless fly and the largest land animal			tree rules
2	is a	present	midge	the largest land animal			tree rules
3	live	gerund	the largest land animal not said here		Antarctica	year	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in antarctica=Location

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, 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:170-antarctica-emperor-huddles-krill-clear-blooded-fish-and-stone-stealing-penguins.lesson:13.

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 ×2, R7-rel-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.

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