Record-breakers: the biggest and the smallest, sentence 13

The Goliath beetle is one of the heaviest insects; its grubs grow big on rotting wood, and a grown beetle can weigh as much as a small bird.

Who acts: Goliath beetle, grubs, grown beetle · What happens: be, grow, rot, weigh · To what, where: one, much

This is a sentence of the lesson «Record-breakers: the biggest and the smallest» 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 (Goliath beetle, grubs, grown beetle), 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 beetle	det
2	Goliath	goliath	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 beetle	compound
3	beetle	beetle	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 one	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 one	cop
5	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	9 insects	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 insects	det
8	heaviest	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Sup	9 insects	amod
9	insects	insect	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 one	nmod
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 grow	punct
11	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 grubs	nmod:poss
12	grubs	grub	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 grow	nsubj
13	grow	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 one	parataxis
14	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 grow	xcomp
15	on	on	ADP	_	17 wood	case
16	rotting	rot	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	17 wood	amod
17	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 big	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 weigh	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 weigh	cc
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 beetle	det
21	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 beetle	amod
22	beetle	beetle	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 weigh	nsubj
23	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 weigh	aux
24	weigh	weigh	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 grow	conj
25	as	as	ADV	_	26 much	advmod
26	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 weigh	obj
27	as	as	ADP	_	30 bird	case
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 bird	det
29	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 bird	amod
30	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 much	nmod
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 one	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the Goliath beetle	one	of the heaviest insects	tree rules
2	grow	present	beetle's grubs		big property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	rot	gerund				vn entity_specific_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
4	grow	participle				vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	weigh	can	a grown beetle	much	as a small bird	vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme much=Value

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:186-record-breakers-the-biggest-and-the-smallest.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): 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.

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