Small creatures and creepy-crawlies, sentence 15

Ants can lift many times their own weight, but a giant ant would collapse, because when a body gets bigger its weight grows much faster than the strength of its legs.

Who acts: Ants, giant ant, body, weight · What happens: lift, collapse, get, grow · To what, where: own weight

This is a sentence of the lesson «Small creatures and creepy-crawlies» of the myths 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 (Ants, giant ant, body, 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	Ants	ant	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 lift	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 lift	aux
3	lift	lift	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 times	amod
5	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 lift	obl:unmarked
6	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 weight	nmod:poss
7	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 weight	amod
8	weight	weight	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lift	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 collapse	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	15 collapse	cc
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 ant	det
12	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 ant	amod
13	ant	ant	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 collapse	nsubj
14	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 collapse	aux
15	collapse	collapse	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 lift	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 gets	punct
17	because	because	SCONJ	_	21 gets	mark
18	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	21 gets	advmod
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 body	det
20	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 gets	nsubj
21	gets	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 collapse	advcl
22	bigger	big	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	21 gets	xcomp
23	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 weight	nmod:poss
24	weight	weight	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 grows	nsubj
25	grows	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 gets	parataxis
26	much	much	ADV	_	27 faster	advmod
27	faster	fast	ADV	Degree=Cmp	25 grows	advmod
28	than	than	ADP	_	30 strength	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 strength	det
30	strength	strength	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 faster	obl
31	of	of	ADP	_	33 legs	case
32	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 legs	nmod:poss
33	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 strength	nmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 lift	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	lift	can	Ants	Ants's own weight	time		vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent weight=Theme
2	collapse	would	a giant ant				vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	get	present	a body			big property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
4	grow	present	body's weight			fast property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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:myths:009-small-creatures-and-creepy-crawlies.lesson:15.

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. 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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