--- title: The smallest insects are fairy wasps, sometimes called fairy flies;… — The microscopic world: tardigrades, mites, plank… · tree and pragmatics description: The smallest insects are fairy wasps, sometimes called fairy flies; some are only about a seventh of a millimetre long, smaller than some single-celled creatures. Who acts: smallest insects, fairy wasps, some. 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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 (smallest insects, fairy wasps, some), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:259-the-microscopic-world-tardigrades-mites-plankton-and-other-tiny-creatures.lesson:15 # text = The smallest insects are fairy wasps, sometimes called fairy flies; some are only about a seventh of a millimetre long, smaller than some single-celled creatures. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 259-the-microscopic-world-tardigrades-mites-plankton-and-other-tiny-creatures.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 ×5, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 smallest small ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 3 amod _ _ 3 insects insect NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nsubj _ _ 4 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 5 fairy fairy NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 compound _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 6 wasps wasp NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 8 sometimes sometimes ADV RB PronType=Ind 9 advmod _ _ 9 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 6 acl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:conj 10 fairy fairy NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 compound _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 11 flies fly NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:obj 12 ; ; PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=6:punct 13 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 18 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=18:nsubj|HaikuPos=PRON:DT:PronType=Ind 14 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 cop _ _ 15 only only ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 16 about about ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=18:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 seventh seventh NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 conj _ _ 19 of of ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 millimetre millimetre NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nmod _ _ 22 long long ADV RB Degree=Pos 21 advmod _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 24 smaller small ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 18 amod _ _ 25 than than ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 26 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 30 det _ _ 27 single single ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 compound _ _ 28 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 27 punct _ _ 29 celled cell VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 30 amod _ _ 30 creatures creature NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 obl _ _ 31 . . PUNCT . _ 6 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 smallest insects | fairy wasps and a seventh | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **call** | participle | fairy wasps and a seventh *not said here* | fairy flies | | | | sometimes *property* | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **is a** | present | some | a seventh | | | | of a millimetre; about *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **cell** | participle | | | | | | | tree rules | 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:259-the-microscopic-world-tardigrades-mites-plankton-and-other-tiny-creatures.lesson:15`. **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 ×5, 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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