Beetles: the biggest group of animals on Earth, wing cases and six legs, sentence 15

Featherwing beetles are among the smallest, some about a third of a millimetre long, with feathery wings like little brushes; the titan beetle of South America can be about 16 centimetres long.

Who acts: Featherwing beetles, titan beetle · What happens: be · To what, where: 16 centimetres

This is a sentence of the lesson «Beetles: the biggest group of animals on Earth, wing cases and six legs» 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 (Featherwing beetles, titan 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	Featherwing	featherwing	NOUN	_	2 beetles	compound
2	beetles	beetle	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 smallest	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 smallest	cop
4	among	among	ADP	_	6 smallest	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 smallest	det
6	smallest	small	ADJ	Degree=Sup	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 smallest	punct
8	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	11 third	det
9	about	about	ADP	_	11 third	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 third	det
11	third	third	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 beetles	appos
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 millimetre	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 millimetre	det
14	millimetre	millimetre	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 third	nmod
15	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 third	amod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 wings	punct
17	with	with	ADP	_	19 wings	case
18	feathery	feathery	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 wings	amod
19	wings	wing	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 smallest	obl
20	like	like	ADP	_	22 brushes	case
21	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 brushes	amod
22	brushes	brush	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 wings	nmod
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	6 smallest	punct
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 beetle	det
25	titan	titan	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 beetle	compound
26	beetle	beetle	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 centimetres	nsubj
27	of	of	ADP	_	29 America	case
28	South	South	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 America	compound
29	America	America	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 beetle	nmod
30	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	34 centimetres	aux
31	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	34 centimetres	cop
32	about	about	ADV	_	33 16	advmod
33	16	16	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	34 centimetres	nummod
34	centimetres	centimetre	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 smallest	parataxis
35	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	34 centimetres	advmod
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 smallest	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	Featherwing beetles					with feathery wings like little brushes; small property	tree rules
2	is a	can	the titan beetle of South America	16 centimetres				long property	tree rules

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:306-beetles-the-biggest-group-of-animals-on-earth-wing-cases-and-six-legs.lesson:15.

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): R6-punct-agree ×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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