--- title: A tiger beetle in Australia runs about 2.5 metres a second, so fast… — Tiny champions: the strongest beetle, the highes… · tree and pragmatics description: A tiger beetle in Australia runs about 2.5 metres a second, so fast its eyes cannot keep up, and it stops for a moment to look again. Who acts: tiger beetle, eyes, number. 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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 (tiger beetle, eyes, number), 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:13 # text = A tiger beetle in Australia runs about 2.5 metres a second, so fast its eyes cannot keep up, and it stops for a moment to look again. # 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 ×2 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 tiger tiger NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 beetle beetle NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj:outer _ _ 4 in in ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 Australia Australia PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nmod _ _ 6 runs run VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 about about ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 8 2.5 2.5 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Frac 9 nummod _ _ 9 metres metre NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obj _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 second second NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl:unmarked _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 13 so so ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 14 fast fast ADV RB Degree=Pos 19 advmod _ _ 15 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 16 nmod:poss _ _ 16 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 nsubj _ _ 17 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 19 aux _ _ 18 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 19 advmod _ _ 19 keep keep VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 advcl _ _ 20 up up ADP RP _ 19 compound:prt _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 23 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 24 stops stop VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 25 for for ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 moment moment NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl _ _ 28 to to PART TO _ 29 mark _ _ 29 look look VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 24 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=27:acl 30 again again ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ _ 31 . . 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 | **run about** | present | a tiger beetle in Australia | 2.5 metres | | | second | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme metre=Trajectory | | 2 | **not** **keep up** | can | number's eyes | | | | | fast *property* | vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **stop** | present | number | | | | moment | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | | 4 | **look** | to-infinitive | number *not said here* | | | | again | | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | 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:13`. **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 ×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. 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