--- title: With little food, big animals slowly become smaller over many genera… — Strange islands: Komodo dragons, the dodo, red c… · tree and pragmatics description: With little food, big animals slowly become smaller over many generations, so elephants on some islands shrank to the size of a pony. Who acts: big animals, elephants. 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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 (big animals, elephants), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:181-strange-islands-komodo-dragons-the-dodo-red-crabs-kakapos-giants-and-dwarfs.lesson:1 # text = With little food, big animals slowly become smaller over many generations, so elephants on some islands shrank to the size of a pony. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 181-strange-islands-komodo-dragons-the-dodo-red-crabs-kakapos-giants-and-dwarfs.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 With with ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 4 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 5 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 animals animal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 nsubj _ _ 7 slowly slowly ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 8 become become VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 smaller small ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 8 xcomp _ _ 10 over over ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 generations generation NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obl _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 14 so so CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 15 elephants elephant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 nsubj _ _ 16 on on ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 18 det _ _ 18 islands island NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 nmod _ _ 19 shrank shrink VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:conj 20 to to ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 size size NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ _ 23 of of ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 pony pony NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nmod _ _ 26 . . PUNCT . _ 19 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **become** | present | big animals | | | | | with little food; slowly, small *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | | 2 | **shrink** | past | elephants on some islands | | | | | to the size of a pony *result* | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent to size=Result | 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:181-strange-islands-komodo-dragons-the-dodo-red-crabs-kakapos-giants-and-dwarfs.lesson:1`. **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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