--- title: Fairyflies are tiny wasps, some smaller than a fifth of a millimetre… — Tiny champions: the strongest beetle, the highes… · tree and pragmatics description: Fairyflies are tiny wasps, some smaller than a fifth of a millimetre, smaller than some creatures made of just one cell; they lay eggs inside other insects' eggs. Who acts: Fairyflies. 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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 (Fairyflies), 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:16 # text = Fairyflies are tiny wasps, some smaller than a fifth of a millimetre, smaller than some creatures made of just one cell; they lay eggs inside other insects' eggs. # 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 ×3, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Fairyflies fairyfly NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 2 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 3 tiny tiny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 wasps wasp NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 6 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 10 det _ _ 7 smaller small ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 10 advmod _ _ 8 than than ADP IN _ 7 fixed _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 fifth fifth NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 appos _ _ 11 of of ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 millimetre millimetre NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nmod _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 15 smaller small ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 10 parataxis _ _ 16 than than SCONJ IN _ 19 mark _ _ 17 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 18 det _ _ 18 creatures creature NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=19:nsubj 19 made make VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 18 acl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=15:advcl|HaikuPos=VERB:VBD:Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 20 of of ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 21 just just ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 22 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 23 nummod _ _ 23 cell cell NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ _ 24 ; ; PUNCT : _ 26 punct _ _ 25 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 26 lay lay VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj 27 eggs egg NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 obj _ _ 28 inside inside ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 29 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 30 insects insect NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 nmod:poss _ _ 31 ' 's PART POS _ 30 case _ _ 32 eggs egg NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=27:nmod 33 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | Fairyflies | tiny wasps | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **make** | participle | | some creatures *not said here* | | | | of one cell | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | | 3 | **lay** | present | Fairyflies *= fairyfly* | eggs | | other insects's eggs | | | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent egg=Theme inside egg=Destination | 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:16`. **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. **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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