--- title: The bee hummingbird from Cuba is the smallest bird in the world; it… — Record-breakers: the biggest and the smallest · tree and pragmatics description: 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. Who acts: bee hummingbird, hummingbird. A sentence of the lesson «Record-breakers: the biggest and the smallest» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its depende --- [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/8/) [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…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/186-record-breakers-the-biggest-and-the-smallest/) / 8 # Record-breakers: the biggest and the smallest, sentence 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. **Who acts:** bee hummingbird, hummingbird · **What happens:** be, weigh, lay · **To what, where:** smallest bird, world, two grams, eggs This is a sentence of the lesson «Record-breakers: the biggest and the smallest» of the biology course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bee hummingbird, hummingbird), 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:8 # text = 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. # 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, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 bee bee NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 hummingbird hummingbird NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 4 from from ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 Cuba Cuba PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nmod _ _ 6 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 cop _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 8 smallest small ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 9 amod _ _ 9 bird bird NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 10 in in ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 world world NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nmod _ _ 13 ; ; PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=9:punct 14 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 15 weighs weigh VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:conj 16 about about ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=18:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 17 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 18 nummod _ _ 18 grams gram NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 obj _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 20 lays lay VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 conj _ _ 21 eggs egg NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 obj _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 size size NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 appos _ _ 24 of of ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 pea pea NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nmod _ _ 27 . . PUNCT . _ 9 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 bee hummingbird from Cuba | the smallest bird | | the world | | | tree rules | | 2 | **weigh** | present | hummingbird | two grams | | | | | vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme gram=Value | | 3 | **lay** | present | hummingbird *not said here* | eggs | | | | | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent egg=Result | 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:8`. **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, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-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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