The microscopic world: cells, the building blocks of life, sentence 11

The yolk of an unfertilised hen's egg is often called a single cell, one of the largest there is, full of food for a growing chick.

What happens: call, be, grow · To what, where: yolk · Speech: someone speaks here

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: 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 yolk	det
2	yolk	yolk	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 called	nsubj:pass
3	of	of	ADP	_	8 egg	case
4	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 hen	det
5	unfertilised	unfertilised	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 hen	amod
6	hen	hen	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 egg	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 hen	case
8	egg	egg	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 yolk	nmod
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 called	aux:pass
10	often	often	ADV	_	11 called	advmod
11	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 cell	det
13	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 cell	amod
14	cell	cell	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 called	xcomp
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 one	punct
16	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 cell	appos
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 largest	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 largest	det
19	largest	large	ADJ	Degree=Sup	16 one	nmod
20	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	21 is	expl
21	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 largest	acl:relcl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 full	punct
23	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 cell	appos
24	of	of	ADP	_	25 food	case
25	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 full	obl
26	for	for	ADP	_	29 chick	case
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 chick	det
28	growing	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	29 chick	amod
29	chick	chick	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 full	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 called	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	call	present · passive	the yolk of a unfertilised hen's egg		often property	vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient
2	be	present		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	grow	gerund				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, 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:11.

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 ×2, 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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