Record-breakers: the biggest and the smallest, sentence 9

A frog from Papua New Guinea about seven millimetres long is one of the smallest animals with a backbone, living in leaf litter and eating tiny insects.

Who acts: frog, smallest animals · What happens: be, live, eat · To what, where: one, leaf litter, tiny insects

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 (frog, smallest animals), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 frog	det
2	frog	frog	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 one	nsubj
3	from	from	ADP	_	6 Guinea	case
4	Papua	Papua	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Guinea	flat
5	New	New	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Guinea	flat
6	Guinea	guinea	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 frog	nmod
7	about	about	ADV	_	8 seven	advmod
8	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 millimetres	nummod
9	millimetres	millimetre	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 long	obl:unmarked
10	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	12 one	advmod
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 one	cop
12	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
13	of	of	ADP	_	16 animals	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 animals	det
15	smallest	small	ADJ	Degree=Sup	16 animals	amod
16	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 one	nmod
17	with	with	ADP	_	19 backbone	case
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 backbone	det
19	backbone	backbone	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 animals	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 living	punct
21	living	live	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	16 animals	acl
22	in	in	ADP	_	24 litter	case
23	leaf	leaf	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 litter	compound
24	litter	litter	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 living	obl
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 eating	cc
26	eating	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	21 living	conj
27	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 insects	amod
28	insects	insect	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 eating	obj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 one	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	present	a frog from Papua New Guinea	one		of the smallest animals with a backbone; long property	tree rules
2	live	gerund	the smallest animals with a backbone not said here		leaf litter		vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in litter=Location
3	eat	gerund	the smallest animals with a backbone not said here	tiny insects			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent insect=Patient

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:9.

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 ×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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