The microscopic world: cells, the building blocks of life, sentence 1

Put one drop of pond water under a school microscope and a whole hidden world swims into view: slipper-shaped paramecia rowing with tiny hairs, amoebas flowing like blobs of jelly, green algae, each of them just one single cell.

Who acts: you, whole hidden world, slipper shaped paramecia, amoebas, each · What happens: put, swim, row, flow, cell · To what, where: one drop, school microscope, view

This is a sentence of the lesson «The microscopic world: cells, the building blocks of life» 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 (you, whole hidden world, slipper shaped paramecia, amoebas), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Put	put	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 drop	nummod
3	drop	drop	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Put	obj
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 water	case
5	pond	pond	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 water	compound
6	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 drop	nmod
7	under	under	ADP	_	10 microscope	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 microscope	det
9	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 microscope	compound
10	microscope	microscope	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Put	obl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 swims	cc
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 world	det
13	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 world	amod
14	hidden	hidden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 world	amod
15	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 swims	nsubj
16	swims	swim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Put	conj
17	into	into	ADP	_	18 view	case
18	view	view	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 swims	obl
19	:	:	PUNCT	_	23 paramecia	punct
20	slipper	slipper	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 paramecia	compound
21	-	-	PUNCT	_	20 slipper	punct
22	shaped	shaped	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 paramecia	amod
23	paramecia	paramecium	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 view	appos
24	rowing	row	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	23 paramecia	acl
25	with	with	ADP	_	27 hairs	case
26	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 hairs	amod
27	hairs	hair	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 rowing	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 amoebas	punct
29	amoebas	amoeba	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 paramecia	conj
30	flowing	flow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	29 amoebas	acl
31	like	like	ADP	_	32 blobs	case
32	blobs	blob	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 flowing	obl
33	of	of	ADP	_	34 jelly	case
34	jelly	jelly	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 blobs	nmod
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 algae	punct
36	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 algae	amod
37	algae	alga	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 blobs	conj
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 cell	punct
39	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	45 cell	nsubj
40	of	of	ADP	_	41 them	case
41	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 each	nmod
42	just	just	ADV	_	45 cell	advmod
43	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	45 cell	nummod
44	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 cell	amod
45	cell	cell	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 paramecia	conj
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Put	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	put	imperative	you not said here	one drop of pond water	a school microscope		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent drop=Theme under microscope=Destination
2	swim	present	a whole hidden world		view		vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into view=Destination
3	row	gerund	slipper shaped paramecia and amoebas and one single cell not said here			with tiny hairs	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
4	flow	gerund	amoebas not said here			like blobs of jelly and green algae	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	cell		each				tree rules

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, 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:256-the-microscopic-world-cells-the-building-blocks-of-life.lesson:1.

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): no change. 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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