--- title: The smallest shrews weigh about as much as a paperclip or two, while… — Zootopia: real sloths, shrews, predators and prey · tree and pragmatics description: The smallest shrews weigh about as much as a paperclip or two, while an elephant weighs several tonnes, millions of times more. Who acts: smallest shrews, elephant. A sentence of the lesson «Zootopia: real sloths, shrews, predators and prey» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its de --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/142-zootopia-real-sloths-shrews-predators-and-prey/11/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/) / [Zootopia: real sloths, shrews, predato…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/142-zootopia-real-sloths-shrews-predators-and-prey/) / 11 # Zootopia: real sloths, shrews, predators and prey, sentence 11 The smallest shrews weigh about as much as a paperclip or two, while an elephant weighs several tonnes, millions of times more. **Who acts:** smallest shrews, elephant · **What happens:** weigh · **To what, where:** several tonnes This is a sentence of the lesson «Zootopia: real sloths, shrews, predators and prey» 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 (smallest shrews, elephant), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:142-zootopia-real-sloths-shrews-predators-and-prey.lesson:11 # text = The smallest shrews weigh about as much as a paperclip or two, while an elephant weighs several tonnes, millions of times more. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 142-zootopia-real-sloths-shrews-predators-and-prey.lesson # annotation = 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 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 smallest small ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 3 amod _ _ 3 shrews shrew NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 4 weigh weigh VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 about about ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 6 as as ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 7 much much ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 advmod _ _ 8 as as ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 paperclip paperclip NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 11 or or CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 10 conj _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 14 while while SCONJ IN _ 17 mark _ _ 15 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 elephant elephant NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nsubj _ _ 17 weighs weigh VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 advcl _ _ 18 several several ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 tonnes tonne NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 obj _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 21 millions million NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 conj _ _ 22 of of ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 times time NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 nmod _ _ 24 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 21 amod _ _ 25 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **weigh** | present | the smallest shrews | | | | | as a paperclip | vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **weigh** | present | a elephant | several tonnes and millions of times | | | | | vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme tonne=Value | 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](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:142-zootopia-real-sloths-shrews-predators-and-prey.lesson:11`. **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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