--- title: The goliath and Hercules beetles are among the biggest insects; inse… — The insect house: ants, stick insects, tarantula… · tree and pragmatics description: The goliath and Hercules beetles are among the biggest insects; insects stay smallish partly because their breathing tubes work well only over short distances. Who acts: goliath beetles, insects, breathing tubes. 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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 (goliath beetles, insects, breathing tubes), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:097-the-insect-house-ants-stick-insects-tarantulas-and-scorpions.lesson:14 # text = The goliath and Hercules beetles are among the biggest insects; insects stay smallish partly because their breathing tubes work well only over short distances. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 097-the-insect-house-ants-stick-insects-tarantulas-and-scorpions.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, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 2 goliath goliath NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 compound _ _ 3 and and CCONJ CC _ 4 cc _ _ 4 Hercules Hercules PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=2:conj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 5 beetles beetle NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 nsubj _ _ 6 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 cop _ _ 7 among among ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 9 biggest big ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 10 amod _ _ 10 insects insect NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 11 ; ; PUNCT : _ 13 punct _ _ 12 insects insect NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 nsubj _ _ 13 stay stay VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 parataxis _ _ 14 smallish smallish ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 xcomp _ _ 15 partly partly ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 16 because because SCONJ IN _ 20 mark _ _ 17 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 19 nmod:poss _ _ 18 breathing breathing NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 compound _ _ 19 tubes tube NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 nsubj _ _ 20 work work VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 advcl _ _ 21 well well ADV RB Degree=Pos 20 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=25:advmod 22 only only ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 23 over over ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 short short ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 distances distance NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 obl _ _ 26 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | the goliath beetles | | | | | among the biggest insects | tree rules | | 2 | **stay** | present | insects | | | | | smallish *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **work** | present | beetles's breathing tubes | | | | | over short distances; well *property* | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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:097-the-insect-house-ants-stick-insects-tarantulas-and-scorpions.lesson:14`. **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, R8-pos-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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