--- title: The diabolical ironclad beetle of the USA has armour that scientists… — Beetles: the biggest group of animals on Earth,… · tree and pragmatics description: The diabolical ironclad beetle of the USA has armour that scientists found could take a force about 39,000 times its weight; its wing cases are joined like jigsaw pieces and do not open, so it cannot fly. Who acts: diabolical ironclad beetle, scientists, that, 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 (diabolical ironclad beetle, scientists, that, 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:19 # text = The diabolical ironclad beetle of the USA has armour that scientists found could take a force about 39,000 times its weight; its wing cases are joined like jigsaw pieces and do not open, so it cannot fly. # 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): R5-strong ×3, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 2 diabolical diabolical ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 3 ironclad ironclad ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 4 beetle beetle NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 5 of of ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 USA USA PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nmod _ _ 8 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 armour armour NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ _ 10 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 14 nsubj _ _ 11 scientists scientist NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 nsubj _ _ 12 found find VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 acl:relcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:parataxis 13 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 14 aux _ _ 14 take take VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 ccomp _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:acl:relcl 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 force force NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ _ 17 about about ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=19:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 18 39,000 39,000 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 19 nummod _ _ 19 times time NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 nmod _ _ 20 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 21 nmod:poss _ _ 21 weight weight NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nmod:unmarked _ _ 22 ; ; PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 23 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 25 nmod:poss _ _ 24 wing wing NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 compound _ _ 25 cases case NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 nsubj:pass _ _ 26 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 aux:pass _ _ 27 joined join VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 14 advcl _ _ 28 like like ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 jigsaw jigsaw NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 compound _ _ 30 pieces piece NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 obl _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 32 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 34 aux _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=34:aux|HaikuPos=AUX:VB:VerbForm=Inf 33 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 34 advmod _ _ 34 open open VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 27 conj _ _ 35 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 36 so so SCONJ IN _ 40 mark _ _ 37 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 40 nsubj _ _ 38 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 40 aux _ _ 39 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 40 advmod _ _ 40 fly fly VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 34 advcl _ _ 41 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | present | the diabolical ironclad beetle of the USA | armour | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent armour=Patient | | 2 | **find** | past | scientists | | | | | | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 3 | **take** | could | that | a force 39,000 times beetle's weight | | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent force=Theme | | 4 | **join** | present · passive | | beetle's wing cases | | | | like jigsaw pieces | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | | 5 | **not** **open** | present · do-support | | | | | | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **not** **fly** | can | beetle | | | | | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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:19`. **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 ×3, R7-rel-agree ×1, 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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