--- title: The record breakers of the animal world for their size are not lions… — Tiny champions: the strongest beetle, the highes… · tree and pragmatics description: The record breakers of the animal world for their size are not lions or elephants but beetles, fleas, bugs and mites, because being small changes the rules. Who acts: record breakers. 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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 (record breakers), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:365-tiny-champions-the-strongest-beetle-the-highest-jumping-flea-and-the-leggiest-millipede.lesson:0 # text = The record breakers of the animal world for their size are not lions or elephants but beetles, fleas, bugs and mites, because being small changes the rules. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 365-tiny-champions-the-strongest-beetle-the-highest-jumping-flea-and-the-leggiest-millipede.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 ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 record record NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 breakers breaker NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 nsubj _ _ 4 of of ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 animal animal NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 compound _ _ 7 world world NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nmod _ _ 8 for for ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 10 nmod:poss _ _ 10 size size NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nmod _ _ 11 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 cop _ _ 12 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 13 advmod _ _ 13 lions lion NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 14 or or CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 15 elephants elephant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 conj _ _ 16 but but CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 17 beetles beetle NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 conj _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 19 fleas flea NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:conj 20 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 21 bugs bug NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 conj _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 23 mites mite NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 conj _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 25 because because SCONJ IN _ 28 mark _ _ 26 being be AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 27 cop _ _ 27 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 csubj _ _ 28 changes change VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 advcl _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 rules rule NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 obj _ _ 31 . . PUNCT . _ 13 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **is a** | present | the record breakers of the animal world for breakers's size | lions or elephants but beetles and fleas and bugs and mites | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **is** | gerund | | | | | | small *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **change** | present | the record breakers of the animal world for breakers's size *not said here* | the rules | | | | | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rule=Patient | 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:365-tiny-champions-the-strongest-beetle-the-highest-jumping-flea-and-the-leggiest-millipede.lesson:0`. **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 ×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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [The body's rough side: burps, farts, s…, 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/364-the-body-s-rough-side-burps-farts-snot-sneezes-hiccups-and-poo/18/) - next →: [Tiny champions: the strongest beetle,…, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/365-tiny-champions-the-strongest-beetle-the-highest-jumping-flea-and-the-leggiest-millipede/1/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/365-tiny-champions-the-strongest-beetle-the-highest-jumping-flea-and-the-leggiest-millipede/)