Tiny champions: the strongest beetle, the highest-jumping flea and the leggiest millipede, sentence 16

Fairyflies are tiny wasps, some smaller than a fifth of a millimetre, smaller than some creatures made of just one cell; they lay eggs inside other insects' eggs.

Who acts: Fairyflies · What happens: be, make, lay · To what, where: tiny wasps, creatures, eggs

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 (Fairyflies), 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	Fairyflies	fairyfly	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 wasps	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 wasps	cop
3	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 wasps	amod
4	wasps	wasp	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 fifth	punct
6	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	10 fifth	det
7	smaller	small	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	10 fifth	advmod
8	than	than	ADP	_	7 smaller	fixed
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 fifth	det
10	fifth	fifth	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wasps	appos
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 millimetre	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 millimetre	det
13	millimetre	millimetre	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 fifth	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 smaller	punct
15	smaller	small	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	10 fifth	parataxis
16	than	than	SCONJ	_	19 made	mark
17	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	18 creatures	det
18	creatures	creature	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 smaller	obl
19	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 creatures	acl
20	of	of	ADP	_	23 cell	case
21	just	just	ADV	_	23 cell	advmod
22	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	23 cell	nummod
23	cell	cell	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 made	obl
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 lay	punct
25	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 lay	nsubj
26	lay	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 wasps	parataxis
27	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 lay	obj
28	inside	inside	ADP	_	32 eggs	case
29	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 insects	amod
30	insects	insect	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 eggs	nmod:poss
31	'	's	PART	_	30 insects	case
32	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 lay	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 wasps	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Fairyflies	tiny wasps			tree rules
2	make	participle		some creatures not said here		of one cell	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset
3	lay	present	Fairyflies = fairyfly	eggs	other insects's eggs		vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent egg=Theme inside egg=Destination

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:16.

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 ×3, 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.

See the release 0.4.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/365-tiny-champions-the-strongest-beetle-the-highest-jumping-flea-and-the-leggiest-millipede/16/