--- title: The Goliath beetle is one of the heaviest insects; its grubs grow bi… — Record-breakers: the biggest and the smallest · tree and pragmatics description: 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. Who acts: Goliath beetle, grubs, grown 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 (Goliath beetle, grubs, grown beetle), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:186-record-breakers-the-biggest-and-the-smallest.lesson:13 # text = 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. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 186-record-breakers-the-biggest-and-the-smallest.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): R8-pos-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 Goliath goliath NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 beetle beetle NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 4 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 5 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ 6 of of ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 8 heaviest heavy ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 9 amod _ _ 9 insects insect NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nmod _ _ 10 ; ; PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 11 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 12 nmod:poss _ _ 12 grubs grub NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 nsubj _ _ 13 grow grow VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 14 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 xcomp _ _ 15 on on ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 rotting rot VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 17 amod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=17:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 17 wood wood NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 20 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 21 grown grow VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 22 amod _ _ 22 beetle beetle NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nsubj _ _ 23 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 24 aux _ _ 24 weigh weigh VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 conj _ _ 25 as as ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 26 much much ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 obj _ _ 27 as as ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 28 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 29 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 30 bird bird NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nmod _ _ 31 . . PUNCT . _ 5 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 Goliath beetle | one | | | | of the heaviest insects | tree rules | | 2 | **grow** | present | beetle's grubs | | | | | big *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **rot** | gerund | | | | | | | vn entity\_specific\_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 4 | **grow** | participle | | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **weigh** | can | a grown beetle | much | | | | as a small bird | vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme much=Value | 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:186-record-breakers-the-biggest-and-the-smallest.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): R8-pos-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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