--- title: A frog from Papua New Guinea about seven millimetres long is one of… — Record-breakers: the biggest and the smallest · tree and pragmatics description: 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. Who acts: frog, smallest animals. 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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 (frog, smallest animals), 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:9 # text = 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. # 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): R5-strong ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 frog frog NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nsubj _ _ 3 from from ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 4 Papua Papua PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 flat _ _ 5 New New PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 flat _ _ 6 Guinea guinea PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 7 about about ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 8 seven seven NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 9 nummod _ _ 9 millimetres millimetre NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obl:unmarked _ _ 10 long long ADV RB Degree=Pos 12 advmod _ _ 11 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 cop _ _ 12 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ 13 of of ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 15 smallest small ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 16 amod _ _ 16 animals animal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 nmod _ _ 17 with with ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 backbone backbone NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nmod _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 21 living live VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 16 acl _ _ 22 in in ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 leaf leaf NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 compound _ _ 24 litter litter NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 26 eating eat VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 21 conj _ _ 27 tiny tiny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 28 insects insect NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 obj _ _ 29 . . PUNCT . _ 12 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 | a frog from Papua New Guinea | one | | | | of the smallest animals with a backbone; long *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **live** | gerund | the smallest animals with a backbone *not said here* | | | leaf litter | | | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in litter=Location | | 3 | **eat** | gerund | the smallest animals with a backbone *not said here* | tiny insects | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent insect=Patient | 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: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): R5-strong ×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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