The microscopic world: cells, the building blocks of life, sentence 17

An amoeba moves by flowing its inside forward into a bulge called a false foot, and it swallows food by flowing around it.

Who acts: amoeba, bulge, skin · What happens: move, flow, call, swallow, flow around · To what, where: bulge, false foot, food, skin · 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: who acts (amoeba, bulge, skin), 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	An	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 amoeba	det
2	amoeba	amoeba	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 moves	nsubj
3	moves	move	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	by	by	SCONJ	_	5 flowing	mark
5	flowing	flow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 moves	advcl
6	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 inside	nmod:poss
7	inside	inside	ADV	_	8 forward	advmod
8	forward	forward	ADV	_	5 flowing	advmod
9	into	into	ADP	_	11 bulge	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 bulge	det
11	bulge	bulge	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 flowing	obl
12	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 bulge	acl
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 foot	det
14	false	false	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 foot	amod
15	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 called	xcomp
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 swallows	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 swallows	cc
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 swallows	nsubj
19	swallows	swallow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 moves	conj
20	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 swallows	obj
21	by	by	SCONJ	_	22 flowing	mark
22	flowing	flow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	19 swallows	advcl
23	around	around	ADV	_	22 flowing	advmod
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 flowing	obl
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 moves	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	move	present	a amoeba				vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
2	flow	gerund	a amoeba not said here		a bulge	forward property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	call	participle	a bulge not said here	a false foot			vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	swallow	present	skin	food			vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Patient
5	flow around	gerund	skin not said here	skin		around 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, 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:17.

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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2. 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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