--- title: A cat flea can jump about 30 centimetres, many times its body length… — Tiny champions: the strongest beetle, the highes… · tree and pragmatics description: A cat flea can jump about 30 centimetres, many times its body length, by storing energy in a rubbery pad and letting it go all at once like a catapult. Who acts: cat flea, weight. A sentence of the lesson «Tiny champions: the strongest beetle, the highest-jumping flea and the leggiest millipede» of --- [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/8/) [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/) / 8 # Tiny champions: the strongest beetle, the highest-jumping flea and the leggiest millipede, sentence 8 A cat flea can jump about 30 centimetres, many times its body length, by storing energy in a rubbery pad and letting it go all at once like a catapult. **Who acts:** cat flea, weight · **What happens:** jump about, store, let, go · **To what, where:** 30 centimetres, energy, rubbery pad, weight, all 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 (cat flea, 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:8 # text = A cat flea can jump about 30 centimetres, many times its body length, by storing energy in a rubbery pad and letting it go all at once like a catapult. # 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 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 cat cat NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 flea flea NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 4 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 5 jump jump VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 6 about about ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 7 30 30 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 8 nummod _ _ 8 centimetres centimetre NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:obl:unmarked 9 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 10 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 times time NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 nmod:unmarked _ _ 12 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 14 nmod:poss _ _ 13 body body NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 compound _ _ 14 length length NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 16 by by SCONJ IN _ 17 mark _ _ 17 storing store VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 5 advcl _ _ 18 energy energy NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obj _ _ 19 in in ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 20 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 21 rubbery rubbery ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 pad pad NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 24 letting let VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 17 conj _ _ 25 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 obj _ _ 26 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 24 xcomp _ _ 27 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 26 obj _ _ 28 at at ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 29 once once ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult 26 advmod _ _ 30 like like ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 31 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 catapult catapult NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obl _ _ 33 . . PUNCT . _ 5 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 | **jump about** | can | a cat flea | 30 centimetres | | | | weight's body length many times *obl* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme centimetre=Trajectory | | 2 | **store** | gerund | a cat flea *not said here* | energy | | a rubbery pad | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent energy=Theme in pad=Location | | 3 | **let** | gerund | a cat flea *not said here* | weight | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **go** | infinitive | weight *not said here* | all | | | | once *property* | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location all=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:8`. **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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