Record-breakers: the biggest and the smallest, sentence 8
The bee hummingbird from Cuba is the smallest bird in the world; it weighs about two grams and lays eggs the size of a pea.
Who acts: bee hummingbird, hummingbird · What happens: be, weigh, lay · To what, where: smallest bird, world, two grams, eggs
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 (bee hummingbird, hummingbird), 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 hummingbird | det |
| 2 | bee | bee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 hummingbird | compound |
| 3 | hummingbird | hummingbird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 bird | nsubj |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 5 Cuba | case |
| 5 | Cuba | Cuba | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 hummingbird | nmod |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 bird | cop |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 bird | det |
| 8 | smallest | small | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 9 bird | amod |
| 9 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 world | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 world | det |
| 12 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 bird | nmod |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 weighs | punct |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 weighs | nsubj |
| 15 | weighs | weigh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 bird | parataxis |
| 16 | about | about | ADV | _ | 17 two | advmod |
| 17 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 grams | nummod |
| 18 | grams | gram | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 weighs | obj |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 lays | cc |
| 20 | lays | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 weighs | conj |
| 21 | eggs | egg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 lays | obj |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 size | det |
| 23 | size | size | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 eggs | appos |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 pea | case |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 pea | det |
| 26 | pea | pea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 size | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 bird | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the bee hummingbird from Cuba | the smallest bird | the world | tree rules | |||
| 2 | weigh | present | hummingbird | two grams | vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme gram=Value | ||||
| 3 | lay | present | hummingbird not said here | eggs | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent egg=Result |
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:8.
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, 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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