--- title: The tiger beetle runs so fast for its size that its eyes cannot keep… — Record-breakers: the fastest and the slowest · tree and pragmatics description: The tiger beetle runs so fast for its size that its eyes cannot keep up, so it stops to look again; for its size it is faster than a cheetah. Who acts: tiger beetle, eyes, beetle. 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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 (tiger beetle, eyes, beetle), 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:9 # text = The tiger beetle runs so fast for its size that its eyes cannot keep up, so it stops to look again; for its size it is faster than a cheetah. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×2 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 tiger tiger NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 beetle beetle NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 runs run VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 so so ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 6 fast fast ADV RB Degree=Pos 4 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:xcomp|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 7 for for ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 9 nmod:poss _ _ 9 size size NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 10 that that SCONJ IN _ 15 mark _ _ 11 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 12 nmod:poss _ _ 12 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 nsubj _ _ 13 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 15 aux _ _ 14 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 15 advmod _ _ 15 keep keep VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 advcl _ _ 16 up up ADP RP _ 15 compound:prt _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 18 so so ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 19 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 20 stops stop VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 21 to to PART TO _ 22 mark _ _ 22 look look VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 20 xcomp _ _ 23 again again ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 24 ; ; PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 25 for for ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 27 nmod:poss _ _ 27 size size NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obl _ _ 28 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 nsubj _ _ 29 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 30 cop _ _ 30 faster fast ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 4 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:advcl 31 than than ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 32 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 cheetah cheetah NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obl _ _ 34 . . 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 | **run** | present | the tiger beetle | | | | | fast *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **not** **keep up** | can | beetle's eyes | | | | | | vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **stop** | present | beetle | | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | | 4 | **look** | to-infinitive | beetle *not said here* | | | | again | | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 5 | **is** | present | beetle | | | | | for beetle's size; than a cheetah; fast *property* | tree rules | 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:9`. **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 ×2. **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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