Record-breakers: the fastest and the slowest, sentence 4
Some of the fastest movements are tiny: a trap-jaw ant's jaws and a soldier termite's snapping jaws close faster than you could ever blink.
Who acts: Some, jaws, you · What happens: be, snap, close, blink
This is a sentence of the lesson «Record-breakers: the fastest and the slowest» 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 (Some, jaws, you), 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 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 7 tiny | nsubj |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 movements | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 movements | det |
| 4 | fastest | fast | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 5 movements | amod |
| 5 | movements | movement | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Some | nmod |
| 6 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 tiny | cop |
| 7 | tiny | tiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 24 faster | punct |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 ant | det |
| 10 | trap | trap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 jaw | compound |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 trap | punct |
| 12 | jaw | jaw | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 ant | compound |
| 13 | ant | ant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 jaws | nmod:poss |
| 14 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 13 ant | case |
| 15 | jaws | jaw | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 close | nsubj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 jaws | cc |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 termite | det |
| 18 | soldier | soldier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 termite | compound |
| 19 | termite | termite | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 jaws | nmod:poss |
| 20 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 19 termite | case |
| 21 | snapping | snap | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 22 jaws | amod |
| 22 | jaws | jaw | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 jaws | conj |
| 23 | close | close | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 tiny | parataxis |
| 24 | faster | fast | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 23 close | advmod |
| 25 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 29 blink | mark |
| 26 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 29 blink | nsubj |
| 27 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 29 blink | aux |
| 28 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 29 blink | advmod |
| 29 | blink | blink | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 faster | advcl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 tiny | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Some | tiny property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | snap | gerund | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | close | present | a jaw ant's jaws and a soldier termite's snapping jaws | fast property | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 4 | blink | could | you | ever | vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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:185-record-breakers-the-fastest-and-the-slowest.lesson:4.
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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