--- title: Ants can lift many times their own weight, but a giant ant would col… — Small creatures and creepy-crawlies · tree and pragmatics description: Ants can lift many times their own weight, but a giant ant would collapse, because when a body gets bigger its weight grows much faster than the strength of its legs. Who acts: Ants, giant ant, body, 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 (Ants, giant ant, body, weight), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:myths:009-small-creatures-and-creepy-crawlies.lesson:15 # text = Ants can lift many times their own weight, but a giant ant would collapse, because when a body gets bigger its weight grows much faster than the strength of its legs. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = myths # lesson = 009-small-creatures-and-creepy-crawlies.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 1 Ants ant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 2 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 3 aux _ _ 3 lift lift VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 4 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 times time NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obl:unmarked _ _ 6 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 8 nmod:poss _ _ 7 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 weight weight NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:nmod 9 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 10 but but CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 12 giant giant ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 ant ant NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ _ 14 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 15 aux _ _ 15 collapse collapse VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 conj _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 17 because because SCONJ IN _ 21 mark _ _ 18 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 21 advmod _ _ 19 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 body body NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nsubj _ _ 21 gets get VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 advcl _ _ 22 bigger big ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 21 xcomp _ _ 23 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 24 nmod:poss _ _ 24 weight weight NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nsubj _ _ 25 grows grow VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 parataxis _ _ 26 much much ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ _ 27 faster fast ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 25 advmod _ _ 28 than than ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 strength strength NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obl _ _ 31 of of ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 32 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 33 nmod:poss _ _ 33 legs leg NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 nmod _ _ 34 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **lift** | can | Ants | Ants's own weight | | | time | | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent weight=Theme | | 2 | **collapse** | would | a giant ant | | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 3 | **get** | present | a body | | | | | big *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | | 4 | **grow** | present | body's weight | | | | | fast *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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:myths:009-small-creatures-and-creepy-crawlies.lesson:15`. **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. **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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Small creatures and creepy-crawlies, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/9-small-creatures-and-creepy-crawlies/13/) - next →: [Small creatures and creepy-crawlies, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/9-small-creatures-and-creepy-crawlies/16/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/9-small-creatures-and-creepy-crawlies/)