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title: The coral reef pygmy goby lives about eight weeks, one of the shorte… — Record-breakers: the loudest and the longest-lived · tree and pragmatics
description: The coral reef pygmy goby lives about eight weeks, one of the shortest lives of any animal with a backbone, and some adult mayflies live only a few hours. Who acts: coral pygmy goby, adult mayflies. A sentence of the lesson «Record-breakers: the loudest and the longest-lived» of the biology course o
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# Record-breakers: the loudest and the longest-lived, sentence 14

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The coral reef pygmy goby lives about eight weeks, one of the shortest lives of any animal with a backbone, and some adult mayflies live only a few hours.

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**Who acts:** coral pygmy goby, adult mayflies · **What happens:** live

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Record-breakers: the loudest and the longest-lived» 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 (coral pygmy goby, adult mayflies), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:187-record-breakers-the-loudest-and-the-longest-lived.lesson:14
# text = The coral reef pygmy goby lives about eight weeks, one of the shortest lives of any animal with a backbone, and some adult mayflies live only a few hours.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 187-record-breakers-the-loudest-and-the-longest-lived.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	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
2	coral	coral	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
3	reef	reef	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	pygmy	pygmy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	goby	goby	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	lives	live	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	about	about	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	eight	eight	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	_
9	weeks	week	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl:unmarked	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	9	appos	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	shortest	short	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	15	amod	_	_
15	lives	life	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nmod	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	18	det	_	_
18	animal	animal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
19	with	with	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	backbone	backbone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=15:nmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
24	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	26	det	_	_
25	adult	adult	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	mayflies	mayfly	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	nsubj	_	_
27	live	live	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
28	only	only	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	hours	hour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obl	_	_
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **live** | present | the coral pygmy goby |  |  |  | week |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **live** | present | some adult mayflies |  |  |  | hour |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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.

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**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:187-record-breakers-the-loudest-and-the-longest-lived.lesson:14`.

**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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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