Tiny champions: the strongest beetle, the highest-jumping flea and the leggiest millipede, sentence 10

Millipede means thousand feet, but most have fewer than 400 legs; in 2020 scientists found one in a deep drill hole in Australia with 1,306 legs, the first known with more than a thousand.

Who acts: Millipede, most, scientists · What happens: mean, have, find, know · To what, where: thousand feet, 400 legs, one, 2020

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 (Millipede, most, scientists), 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	Millipede	millipede	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 means	nsubj
2	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 feet	nummod
4	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 means	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 have	punct
6	but	but	CCONJ	_	8 have	cc
7	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	8 have	nsubj
8	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 means	conj
9	fewer	few	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	11 400	advmod
10	than	than	ADP	_	9 fewer	fixed
11	400	400	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	12 legs	nummod
12	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 have	obj
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 found	punct
14	in	in	ADP	_	15 2020	case
15	2020	2020	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	17 found	obl
16	scientists	scientist	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 found	nsubj
17	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 means	parataxis
18	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 found	obj
19	in	in	ADP	_	23 hole	case
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 hole	det
21	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 hole	amod
22	drill	drill	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 hole	compound
23	hole	hole	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 one	nmod
24	in	in	ADP	_	25 Australia	case
25	Australia	Australia	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 hole	nmod
26	with	with	ADP	_	28 legs	case
27	1,306	1,306	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	28 legs	nummod
28	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 first	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 legs	punct
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 first	det
31	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	23 hole	nmod
32	known	know	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	31 first	acl
33	with	with	ADP	_	37 thousand	case
34	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV	37 thousand	advmod
35	than	than	ADP	_	34 more	fixed
36	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 thousand	det
37	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	32 known	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 means	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	mean	present	Millipede	thousand feet			vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent foot=Topic
2	have	present	most	400 legs			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leg=Patient
3	find	past	scientists	one	2020	in a deep drill hole in Australia the first	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Topic
4	know	participle				with a thousand	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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:10.

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): R1-cc-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2. 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.

See the release 0.4.

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