--- title: The Antarctic midge is a tiny wingless fly only a few millimetres lo… — Antarctica: emperor huddles, krill, clear-bloode… · tree and pragmatics description: The Antarctic midge is a tiny wingless fly only a few millimetres long, smaller than a grain of rice, and it is the largest land animal living all year in Antarctica. Who acts: Antarctic midge, midge, largest land animal. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Antarctic midge, midge, largest land animal), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:170-antarctica-emperor-huddles-krill-clear-blooded-fish-and-stone-stealing-penguins.lesson:13 # text = The Antarctic midge is a tiny wingless fly only a few millimetres long, smaller than a grain of rice, and it is the largest land animal living all year in Antarctica. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 170-antarctica-emperor-huddles-krill-clear-blooded-fish-and-stone-stealing-penguins.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): R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 Antarctic Antarctic PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 midge midge NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 4 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 cop _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 6 tiny tiny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 7 wingless wingless ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 fly fly NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 9 only only ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 11 few few ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 millimetres millimetre NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 obl:unmarked _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:obl:unmarked 13 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:Degree=Pos 14 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 15 smaller small ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 8 amod _ _ 16 than than ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 grain grain NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ _ 19 of of ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 rice rice NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nmod _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 23 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 24 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 cop _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 26 largest large ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 28 amod _ _ 27 land land NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 compound _ _ 28 animal animal NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:appos 29 living live VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 28 acl _ _ 30 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 31 det _ _ 31 year year NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obl:unmarked _ _ 32 in in ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 33 Antarctica Antarctica PROPN NNP Number=Sing 29 obl _ _ 34 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | the Antarctic midge | a tiny wingless fly and the largest land animal | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **is a** | present | midge | the largest land animal | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **live** | gerund | the largest land animal *not said here* | | | Antarctica | year | | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in antarctica=Location | 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:170-antarctica-emperor-huddles-krill-clear-blooded-fish-and-stone-stealing-penguins.lesson:13`. **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 ×2, 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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