--- title: Featherwing beetles are among the smallest, some about a third of a… — Beetles: the biggest group of animals on Earth,… · tree and pragmatics description: Featherwing beetles are among the smallest, some about a third of a millimetre long, with feathery wings like little brushes; the titan beetle of South America can be about 16 centimetres long. Who acts: Featherwing beetles, titan beetle. 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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 (Featherwing beetles, titan beetle), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:306-beetles-the-biggest-group-of-animals-on-earth-wing-cases-and-six-legs.lesson:15 # text = Featherwing beetles are among the smallest, some about a third of a millimetre long, with feathery wings like little brushes; the titan beetle of South America can be about 16 centimetres long. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 306-beetles-the-biggest-group-of-animals-on-earth-wing-cases-and-six-legs.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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Featherwing featherwing NOUN NN _ 2 compound _ _ 2 beetles beetle NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nsubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:obj 3 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 4 among among ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 smallest small ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 0 root _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 8 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 11 det _ _ 9 about about ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 third third NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 appos _ _ 12 of of ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 millimetre millimetre NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nmod _ _ 15 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=6:punct 17 with with ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 feathery feathery ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 wings wing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obl _ _ 20 like like ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 brushes brush NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 nmod _ _ 23 ; ; PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 25 titan titan NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 compound _ _ 26 beetle beetle NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 nsubj _ _ 27 of of ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 South South PROPN NNP Number=Sing 29 compound _ _ 29 America America PROPN NNP Number=Sing 26 nmod _ _ 30 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 34 aux _ _ 31 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 34 cop _ _ 32 about about ADV RB _ 33 advmod _ _ 33 16 16 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 34 nummod _ _ 34 centimetres centimetre NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 parataxis _ _ 35 long long ADV RB Degree=Pos 34 advmod _ _ 36 . . 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** | present | Featherwing beetles | | | | | with feathery wings like little brushes; small *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **is a** | can | the titan beetle of South America | 16 centimetres | | | | long *property* | 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:306-beetles-the-biggest-group-of-animals-on-earth-wing-cases-and-six-legs.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): R6-punct-agree ×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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