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title: The tiniest are smaller than a full stop; the biggest are longer tha… — Beetles: the biggest group of animals on Earth,… · tree and pragmatics
description: The tiniest are smaller than a full stop; the biggest are longer than your hand. Who acts: tiniest, biggest. A sentence of the lesson «Beetles: the biggest group of animals on Earth, wing cases and six legs» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics o
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# Beetles: the biggest group of animals on Earth, wing cases and six legs, sentence 7

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The tiniest are smaller than a full stop; the biggest are longer than your hand.

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**Who acts:** tiniest, biggest · **What happens:** be

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Beetles: the biggest group of animals on Earth, wing cases and six legs» 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 (tiniest, biggest), 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:7
# text = The tiniest are smaller than a full stop; the biggest are longer than your hand.
# 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:det
2	tiniest	tiny	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	4	nsubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:amod
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	smaller	small	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	_
5	than	than	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	stop	stop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
9	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=4:punct
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	biggest	big	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	13	nsubj	_	_
12	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
13	longer	long	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	4	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj
14	than	than	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | the tiniest |  |  |  |  | than a full stop; small *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | present | the biggest |  |  |  |  | than your hand; long *property* | tree rules |

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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:306-beetles-the-biggest-group-of-animals-on-earth-wing-cases-and-six-legs.lesson:7`.

**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, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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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