--- title: Islands play tricks with size: on Sicily and Crete elephants shrank… — Terror birds, moas, giant insects and other lost… · tree and pragmatics description: Islands play tricks with size: on Sicily and Crete elephants shrank to the size of a pony, while on other islands small animals grew big, like the Komodo dragon. Who acts: Islands, elephants, small 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 (Islands, elephants, small animals), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:274-terror-birds-moas-giant-insects-and-lost-giants.lesson:3 # text = Islands play tricks with size: on Sicily and Crete elephants shrank to the size of a pony, while on other islands small animals grew big, like the Komodo dragon. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 274-terror-birds-moas-giant-insects-and-lost-giants.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): no change 1 Islands island NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 play play VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 tricks trick NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obj _ _ 4 with with ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 size size NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 6 : : PUNCT : _ 8 punct _ _ 7 on on ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 Sicily Sicily PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 obl _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 10 Crete Crete PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 conj _ _ 11 elephants elephant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 nsubj _ _ 12 shrank shrink VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 13 to to ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 size size NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ _ 16 of of ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 pony pony NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nmod _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 20 while while SCONJ IN _ 26 mark _ _ 21 on on ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 23 islands island NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 obl _ _ 24 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 animals animal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 nsubj _ _ 26 grew grow VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 conj _ _ 27 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 xcomp _ _ 28 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 29 like like ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 31 Komodo Komodo PROPN NNP Number=Sing 32 compound _ _ 32 dragon dragon NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obl _ _ 33 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **play** | present | Islands | tricks | | | | with size | vn play-114.2-1 «NP V NP PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent trick=Theme with size=Co-Agent | | 2 | **shrink** | past | elephants | | | Sicily and Crete | | to the size of a pony *result* | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent to size=Result | | 3 | **grow** | past | small animals | | | other islands | | like the Komodo dragon; big *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on island=Location | 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:274-terror-birds-moas-giant-insects-and-lost-giants.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): no change. **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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