--- title: That is why a beetle can pull a thousand times its weight while an e… — Tiny champions: the strongest beetle, the highes… · tree and pragmatics description: That is why a beetle can pull a thousand times its weight while an elephant can only just carry a few people, and why a giant ant from a film would collapse under its own weight. Who acts: That, beetle, elephant, giant ant. 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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 (That, beetle, elephant, giant ant), 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:2 # text = That is why a beetle can pull a thousand times its weight while an elephant can only just carry a few people, and why a giant ant from a film would collapse under its own weight. # 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, R6-punct-agree ×1 1 That that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 3 nsubj _ _ 2 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 cop _ _ 3 why why ADV WRB PronType=Int 7 advmod _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 beetle beetle NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 6 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 7 aux _ _ 7 pull pull VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 thousand thousand NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 10 nummod _ _ 10 times time NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obl:unmarked _ _ 11 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 12 nmod:poss _ _ 12 weight weight NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:appos 13 while while SCONJ IN _ 19 mark _ _ 14 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 elephant elephant NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nsubj _ _ 16 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 19 aux _ _ 17 only only ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 18 just just ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 19 carry carry VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 advcl _ _ 20 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 21 few few ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 obj _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 25 why why ADV WRB PronType=Int 33 advmod _ _ 26 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 27 giant giant ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 28 ant ant NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 nsubj _ _ 29 from from ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 30 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 film film NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nmod _ _ 32 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 33 aux _ _ 33 collapse collapse VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 19 conj _ _ 34 under under ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 35 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 37 nmod:poss _ _ 36 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 37 amod _ _ 37 weight weight NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obl _ _ 38 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=7:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | That | | | | | why *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **pull** | can | a beetle | ant's weight | | | time | | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent weight=Theme | | 3 | **carry** | can | a elephant | a few people | | | | | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Theme | | 4 | **collapse** | would | a giant ant from a film | | | ant's own weight | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=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:2`. **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, R6-punct-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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