Tiny champions: the strongest beetle, the highest-jumping flea and the leggiest millipede, sentence 6

A beetle's skeleton is on the outside, like light armour, with its muscles fixed inside it.

Who acts: skeleton · What happens: be, fix · To what, where: outside, muscles, skeleton

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 (skeleton), 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	2 beetle	det
2	beetle	beetle	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 skeleton	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 beetle	case
4	skeleton	skeleton	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 outside	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 outside	cop
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 outside	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 outside	det
8	outside	outside	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 armour	punct
10	like	like	ADP	_	12 armour	case
11	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 armour	compound
12	armour	armour	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 outside	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 muscles	punct
14	with	with	ADP	_	16 muscles	case
15	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 muscles	nmod:poss
16	muscles	muscle	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 armour	nmod
17	fixed	fix	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 muscles	acl
18	inside	inside	ADP	_	19 it	case
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 fixed	obl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 outside	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	a beetle's skeleton			the outside		like light armour with skeleton's muscles	tree rules
2	fix	participle		skeleton's muscles not said here		skeleton			vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=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:6.

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, R8-pos-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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