Tiny champions: the strongest beetle, the highest-jumping flea and the leggiest millipede, sentence 13

A tiger beetle in Australia runs about 2.5 metres a second, so fast its eyes cannot keep up, and it stops for a moment to look again.

Who acts: tiger beetle, eyes, number · What happens: run about, not keep up, stop, look · To what, where: 2.5 metres

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 (tiger beetle, eyes, number), 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	3 beetle	det
2	tiger	tiger	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 beetle	compound
3	beetle	beetle	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 runs	nsubj:outer
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 Australia	case
5	Australia	Australia	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 beetle	nmod
6	runs	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	about	about	ADV	_	8 2.5	advmod
8	2.5	2.5	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Frac	9 metres	nummod
9	metres	metre	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 runs	obj
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 second	det
11	second	second	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 runs	obl:unmarked
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 keep	punct
13	so	so	ADV	_	14 fast	advmod
14	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	19 keep	advmod
15	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 eyes	nmod:poss
16	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 keep	nsubj
17	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 keep	aux
18	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	19 keep	advmod
19	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 runs	advcl
20	up	up	ADP	_	19 keep	compound:prt
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 stops	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 stops	cc
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 stops	nsubj
24	stops	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 runs	conj
25	for	for	ADP	_	27 moment	case
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 moment	det
27	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 stops	obl
28	to	to	PART	_	29 look	mark
29	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 stops	advcl
30	again	again	ADV	_	29 look	advmod
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 runs	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	run about	present	a tiger beetle in Australia	2.5 metres	second		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme metre=Trajectory
2	not keep up	can	number's eyes			fast property	vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent
3	stop	present	number		moment		vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
4	look	to-infinitive	number not said here		again		vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

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:13.

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 ×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.

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