Tiny champions: the strongest beetle, the highest-jumping flea and the leggiest millipede, sentence 8

A cat flea can jump about 30 centimetres, many times its body length, by storing energy in a rubbery pad and letting it go all at once like a catapult.

Who acts: cat flea, weight · What happens: jump about, store, let, go · To what, where: 30 centimetres, energy, rubbery pad, weight, all

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 (cat flea, weight), 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 flea	det
2	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 flea	compound
3	flea	flea	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 jump	nsubj
4	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 jump	aux
5	jump	jump	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	about	about	ADV	_	7 30	advmod
7	30	30	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	8 centimetres	nummod
8	centimetres	centimetre	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 jump	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 times	punct
10	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 times	amod
11	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 length	nmod:unmarked
12	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 length	nmod:poss
13	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 length	compound
14	length	length	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 jump	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 storing	punct
16	by	by	SCONJ	_	17 storing	mark
17	storing	store	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 jump	advcl
18	energy	energy	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 storing	obj
19	in	in	ADP	_	22 pad	case
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 pad	det
21	rubbery	rubbery	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 pad	amod
22	pad	pad	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 storing	obl
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 letting	cc
24	letting	let	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 storing	conj
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 letting	obj
26	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 letting	xcomp
27	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	26 go	obj
28	at	at	ADP	_	29 once	case
29	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	26 go	advmod
30	like	like	ADP	_	32 catapult	case
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 catapult	det
32	catapult	catapult	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 once	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 jump	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	jump about	can	a cat flea	30 centimetres		weight's body length many times obl	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme centimetre=Trajectory
2	store	gerund	a cat flea not said here	energy	a rubbery pad		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent energy=Theme in pad=Location
3	let	gerund	a cat flea not said here	weight			tree rules
4	go	infinitive	weight not said here	all		once property	vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location all=Theme

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:8.

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): 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.

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