--- title: Fairyflies have feathery wings of a stalk and long hairs and row thr… — Tiny champions: the strongest beetle, the highes… · tree and pragmatics description: Fairyflies have feathery wings of a stalk and long hairs and row through the air almost as if it were syrup. Who acts: Fairyflies, air. A sentence of the lesson «Tiny champions: the strongest beetle, the highest-jumping flea and the leggiest millipede» of the biology course of Mova's primary school --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/365-tiny-champions-the-strongest-beetle-the-highest-jumping-flea-and-the-leggiest-millipede/17/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/) / [Tiny champions: the strongest beetle,…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/365-tiny-champions-the-strongest-beetle-the-highest-jumping-flea-and-the-leggiest-millipede/) / 17 # Tiny champions: the strongest beetle, the highest-jumping flea and the leggiest millipede, sentence 17 Fairyflies have feathery wings of a stalk and long hairs and row through the air almost as if it were syrup. **Who acts:** Fairyflies, air · **What happens:** have, be · **To what, where:** feathery wings, syrup This is a sentence of the lesson «Tiny champions: the strongest beetle, the highest-jumping flea and the leggiest millipede» 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 (Fairyflies, air), 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:17 # text = Fairyflies have feathery wings of a stalk and long hairs and row through the air almost as if it were syrup. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Fairyflies fairyfly NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 feathery feathery ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 wings wing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obj _ _ 5 of of ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 stalk stalk NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nmod _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 9 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 hairs hair NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 conj _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 row row NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 conj _ _ 13 through through ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 air air NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ _ 16 almost almost ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 17 as as SCONJ IN _ 21 mark _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=21:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 18 if if SCONJ IN _ 21 mark _ _ 19 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 20 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 21 cop _ _ 21 syrup syrup NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 advcl _ _ 22 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | present | Fairyflies | feathery wings of a stalk and long hairs and row | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wing=Patient | | 2 | **is a** | past | air | syrup | | | | almost *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. 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:17`. **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): 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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