--- title: Sizes surprise: a lion's mane jellyfish can trail tentacles longer t… — Record-breakers: the biggest and the smallest · tree and pragmatics description: 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. Who acts: Sizes, mane jellyfish, people. 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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 (Sizes, mane jellyfish, people), 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:3 # text = 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. # 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Sizes size NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 surprise surprise VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 : : PUNCT : _ 2 punct _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 lion lion NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nmod:poss _ _ 6 's 's PART POS _ 5 case _ _ 7 mane mane NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 compound _ _ 8 jellyfish jellyfish NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 9 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 10 aux _ _ 10 trail trail VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 ccomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:parataxis 11 tentacles tentacle NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obj _ _ 12 longer long ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 10 advmod _ _ 13 than than ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 15 blue blue ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 whale whale NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=10:punct 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 19 in in ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 Australia Australia PROPN NNP Number=Sing 27 obl _ _ 21 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 earthworm earthworm NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obl _ _ 23 over over ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 metre metre NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obl:unmarked _ _ 26 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 27 gurgles gurgle VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ _ 28 in in ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 30 nmod:poss _ _ 30 burrow burrow NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obl _ _ 31 loudly loudly ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ _ 32 enough enough ADV RB _ 31 advmod _ _ 33 for for SCONJ IN _ 36 mark _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=36:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 34 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 36 nsubj _ _ 35 to to PART TO _ 36 mark _ _ 36 hear hear VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 31 advcl _ _ 37 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **surprise** | present | Sizes | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **trail** | can | a lion's mane jellyfish | tentacles | | | | long *property* | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tentacle=Theme | | 3 | **gurgle** | present | a lion's mane jellyfish *not said here* | a earthworm | | Australia | | in jellyfish's burrow; loudly *property* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in australia=Location | | 4 | **hear** | to-infinitive | people | | | | | | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer | 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:3`. **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): R2-punct-next ×1, 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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