--- title: Some of the fastest movements are tiny: a trap-jaw ant's jaws and a… — Record-breakers: the fastest and the slowest · tree and pragmatics description: Some of the fastest movements are tiny: a trap-jaw ant's jaws and a soldier termite's snapping jaws close faster than you could ever blink. Who acts: Some, jaws, you. 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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 (Some, jaws, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:185-record-breakers-the-fastest-and-the-slowest.lesson:4 # text = Some of the fastest movements are tiny: a trap-jaw ant's jaws and a soldier termite's snapping jaws close faster than you could ever blink. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 185-record-breakers-the-fastest-and-the-slowest.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): no change 1 Some some DET DT PronType=Ind 7 nsubj _ _ 2 of of ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 4 fastest fast ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 5 amod _ _ 5 movements movement NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 nmod _ _ 6 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 7 tiny tiny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 8 : : PUNCT : _ 24 punct _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 10 trap trap NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 compound _ _ 11 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 10 punct _ _ 12 jaw jaw NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 compound _ _ 13 ant ant NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nmod:poss _ _ 14 's 's PART POS _ 13 case _ _ 15 jaws jaw NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 nsubj _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 18 soldier soldier NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 compound _ _ 19 termite termite NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nmod:poss _ _ 20 's 's PART POS _ 19 case _ _ 21 snapping snap VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 22 amod _ _ 22 jaws jaw NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 conj _ _ 23 close close VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 parataxis _ _ 24 faster fast ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 23 advmod _ _ 25 than than SCONJ IN _ 29 mark _ _ 26 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj _ _ 27 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 29 aux _ _ 28 ever ever ADV RB PronType=Ind 29 advmod _ _ 29 blink blink VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 24 advcl _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 7 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** | present | Some | | | | | tiny *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **snap** | gerund | | | | | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **close** | present | a jaw ant's jaws and a soldier termite's snapping jaws | | | | | fast *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 4 | **blink** | could | you | | | | ever | | vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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:185-record-breakers-the-fastest-and-the-slowest.lesson:4`. **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): no change. **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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