Tiny champions: the strongest beetle, the highest-jumping flea and the leggiest millipede, sentence 0

The record breakers of the animal world for their size are not lions or elephants but beetles, fleas, bugs and mites, because being small changes the rules.

Who acts: record breakers · What happens: not be, be, change · To what, where: lions, rules

This is a sentence of the lesson «Tiny champions: the strongest beetle, the highest-jumping flea and the leggiest millipede» 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 (record breakers), 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 breakers	det
2	record	record	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 breakers	compound
3	breakers	breaker	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 lions	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	7 world	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 world	det
6	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 world	compound
7	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 breakers	nmod
8	for	for	ADP	_	10 size	case
9	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 size	nmod:poss
10	size	size	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 world	nmod
11	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 lions	cop
12	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 lions	advmod
13	lions	lion	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
14	or	or	CCONJ	_	15 elephants	cc
15	elephants	elephant	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 lions	conj
16	but	but	CCONJ	_	17 beetles	cc
17	beetles	beetle	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 lions	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 fleas	punct
19	fleas	flea	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 beetles	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 bugs	punct
21	bugs	bug	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 fleas	conj
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 mites	cc
23	mites	mite	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 fleas	conj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 changes	punct
25	because	because	SCONJ	_	28 changes	mark
26	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	27 small	cop
27	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 changes	csubj
28	changes	change	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 lions	advcl
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 rules	det
30	rules	rule	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 changes	obj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 lions	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not is a	present	the record breakers of the animal world for breakers's size	lions or elephants but beetles and fleas and bugs and mites		tree rules
2	is	gerund			small property	tree rules
3	change	present	the record breakers of the animal world for breakers's size not said here	the rules		vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rule=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:365-tiny-champions-the-strongest-beetle-the-highest-jumping-flea-and-the-leggiest-millipede.lesson:0.

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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