--- title: Record-breakers: the biggest and the smallest — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «Record-breakers: the biggest and the smallest», a lesson of the biology course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: A giant sequoia called General Sherman is so wide that a family car could park across its trunk, and it has been growing for --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/186-record-breakers-the-biggest-and-the-smallest/) [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/) / Record-breakers: the biggest and the s… # Record-breakers: the biggest and the smallest Lesson 186 of the biology course of Mova's primary school: 15 sentences, each with its syntax tree and pragmatics. The lessons are written for Mova, and their agreed trees are part of Mova corpus 0.4 (CC BY-SA 4.0). How Mova does on its tests: [the lesson at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/biology/186-record-breakers-the-biggest-and-the-smallest/). - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/186-record-breakers-the-biggest-and-the-smallest/1/) — A giant sequoia called General Sherman is so wide that a family car could park across its trunk, and it has been growing for thousands of years behind bark thick enough to survive forest fires. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/186-record-breakers-the-biggest-and-the-smallest/2/) — At the other end, a bat smaller than your thumb, a hummingbird hardly bigger than a bee and a frog that sits on a fingernail all live on the edge, because tiny bodies lose heat very fast. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/186-record-breakers-the-biggest-and-the-smallest/3/) — Sizes surprise: a lion's mane jellyfish can trail tentacles longer than a blue whale, and in Australia an earthworm over a metre long gurgles in its burrow loudly enough for people to hear. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/186-record-breakers-the-biggest-and-the-smallest/4/) — The General Sherman tree in California is the biggest single tree by volume; sequoias live for thousands of years, have thick fire-proof bark, and their cones open with fire. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/186-record-breakers-the-biggest-and-the-smallest/5/) — Pando in Utah is a group of aspen trees that are all one plant joined by the same roots, and it may be one of the heaviest living things on Earth. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/186-record-breakers-the-biggest-and-the-smallest/6/) — A honey fungus in Oregon spreads as threads through about ten square kilometres of soil, feeds on tree roots, and may be thousands of years old. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/186-record-breakers-the-biggest-and-the-smallest/7/) — The bumblebee bat, about the size of a big bumblebee and weighing about two grams, is one of the smallest mammals, and small bodies need little food but lose heat fast. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/186-record-breakers-the-biggest-and-the-smallest/8/) — The bee hummingbird from Cuba is the smallest bird in the world; it weighs about two grams and lays eggs the size of a pea. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/186-record-breakers-the-biggest-and-the-smallest/9/) — A frog from Papua New Guinea about seven millimetres long is one of the smallest animals with a backbone, living in leaf litter and eating tiny insects. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/186-record-breakers-the-biggest-and-the-smallest/10/) — The ostrich lays the biggest egg of any living bird, weighing about as much as two dozen chicken eggs, with a shell strong enough for a person to stand on. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/186-record-breakers-the-biggest-and-the-smallest/11/) — The blue whale is the biggest animal that has ever lived, but not the biggest living thing. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/186-record-breakers-the-biggest-and-the-smallest/12/) — The giraffe is the tallest animal on Earth, reaches food other animals cannot, and has seven neck bones, the same number as a person. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/186-record-breakers-the-biggest-and-the-smallest/13/) — The Goliath beetle is one of the heaviest insects; its grubs grow big on rotting wood, and a grown beetle can weigh as much as a small bird. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/186-record-breakers-the-biggest-and-the-smallest/14/) — The lion's mane jellyfish is one of the longest animals, with tentacles over thirty metres, and one found in 1870 was longer than a blue whale. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/186-record-breakers-the-biggest-and-the-smallest/15/) — The giant Gippsland earthworm of Australia can grow over a metre long, lives deep in wet soil, and people can hear it gurgling in its burrow. - ← previous: [Record-breakers: the fastest and the slowest](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/185-record-breakers-the-fastest-and-the-slowest/) - next →: [Record-breakers: the loudest and the longest-lived](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/187-record-breakers-the-loudest-and-the-longest-lived/) - ↑ back to [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/)