--- title: Watch an ant drag a crumb bigger than itself: a muscle's strength de… — Tiny champions: the strongest beetle, the highes… · tree and pragmatics description: Watch an ant drag a crumb bigger than itself: a muscle's strength depends on how thick it is, but weight depends on the whole body, so when an animal shrinks its weight falls much faster than its strength. Who acts: you, ant, strength, weight. 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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 (you, ant, strength, weight), 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:1 # text = Watch an ant drag a crumb bigger than itself: a muscle's strength depends on how thick it is, but weight depends on the whole body, so when an animal shrinks its weight falls much faster than its strength. # 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): no change 1 Watch watch VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 ant ant NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 drag drag VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 1 xcomp _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 crumb crumb NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 7 bigger big ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 6 amod _ _ 8 than than ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 itself itself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 7 obl _ _ 10 : : PUNCT : _ 15 punct _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 muscle muscle NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nmod:poss _ _ 13 's 's PART POS _ 12 case _ _ 14 strength strength NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ _ 15 depends depend VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 parataxis _ _ 16 on on ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 18 advmod _ _ 18 thick thick ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 xcomp _ _ 19 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 20 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 cop _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 22 but but CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 23 weight weight NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nsubj _ _ 24 depends depend VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 conj _ _ 25 on on ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 27 whole whole ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 28 body body NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl _ _ 29 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 30 so so ADV RB _ 37 advmod _ _ 31 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 34 advmod _ _ 32 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 animal animal NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 nsubj _ _ 34 shrinks shrink VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 37 advcl _ _ 35 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 36 nmod:poss _ _ 36 weight weight NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 nsubj _ _ 37 falls falls VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 parataxis _ _ 38 much much ADV RB _ 39 advmod _ _ 39 faster fast ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 37 advmod _ _ 40 than than ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 41 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 42 nmod:poss _ _ 42 strength strength NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 obl _ _ 43 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **watch** | imperative | you *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **drag** | infinitive | a ant | a crumb | | | | | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crumb=Theme | | 3 | **depend** | present | a muscle's strength | | | | | | vn rely-70 «NP V PP.theme S\_ING»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **is** | present | strength | | | | | thick *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **depend** | present | weight | | | | | on the whole body | vn rely-70 «NP V PP.theme S\_ING»: agent=Agent on body=Theme | | 6 | **shrink** | present | a animal | | | | | | vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 7 | **falls** | present | ant's weight | | | | | fast *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. 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