--- title: Small animals are strong for their size because muscle strength grow… — Tiny champions: the strongest beetle, the highes… · tree and pragmatics description: Small animals are strong for their size because muscle strength grows with how thick a muscle is, but weight grows with the whole body; some ants can hold about 50 times their weight or more. Who acts: Small animals, muscle strength, muscle, 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 (Small animals, muscle strength, muscle, 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:7 # text = Small animals are strong for their size because muscle strength grows with how thick a muscle is, but weight grows with the whole body; some ants can hold about 50 times their weight or more. # 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): R1-cc-next ×1 1 Small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 animals animal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 3 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 4 strong strong ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 5 for for ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 7 nmod:poss _ _ 7 size size NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 8 because because SCONJ IN _ 11 mark _ _ 9 muscle muscle NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 compound _ _ 10 strength strength NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 11 grows grow VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 advcl _ _ 12 with with SCONJ IN _ 14 mark _ _ 13 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 14 advmod _ _ 14 thick thick ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 ccomp _ _ 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 muscle muscle NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nsubj _ _ 17 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 cop _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 19 but but CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=11:cc 20 weight weight NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nsubj _ _ 21 grows grow VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 conj _ _ 22 with with ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 24 whole whole ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 body body NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl _ _ 26 ; ; PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 27 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 28 det _ _ 28 ants ant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 nsubj _ _ 29 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 30 aux _ _ 30 hold hold VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 21 conj _ _ 31 about about ADV RB _ 32 advmod _ _ 32 50 50 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 33 nummod _ _ 33 times time NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 obl:unmarked _ _ 34 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 35 nmod:poss _ _ 35 weight weight NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obj _ _ 36 or or CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 37 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 35 conj _ _ 38 . . PUNCT . _ 4 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 | Small animals | | | | | for beetles's size; strong *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **grow** | present | muscle strength | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **is** | present | a muscle | | | | | thick *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **grow** | present | weight | | | | | with the whole body | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **hold** | can | some ants | beetles's weight | | | time | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent weight=Theme | 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:7`. **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): R1-cc-next ×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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