The microscopic world: cells, the building blocks of life, sentence 6

In 1665 Robert Hooke looked at a slice of cork, saw little boxes and called them cells, like the small rooms of monks; they were the dead walls of plant cells.

Who acts: Robert, cells · What happens: look, see, call, be, slice · To what, where: little boxes, boxes, dead walls, cork · 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 (Robert, cells), 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	In	in	ADP	_	2 1665	case
2	1665	1665	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	5 looked	obl
3	Robert	Robert	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 looked	nsubj
4	Hooke	Hooke	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Robert	flat
5	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	at	at	ADP	_	8 slice	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 slice	det
8	slice	slice	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 looked	obl
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 cork	case
10	cork	cork	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 slice	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 saw	punct
12	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 looked	conj
13	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 boxes	amod
14	boxes	box	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 saw	obj
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 called	cc
16	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 looked	conj
17	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 called	obj
18	cells	cell	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 called	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 rooms	punct
20	like	like	ADP	_	23 rooms	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 rooms	det
22	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 rooms	amod
23	rooms	room	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 cells	nmod
24	of	of	ADP	_	25 monks	case
25	monks	monk	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 rooms	nmod
26	;	;	PUNCT	_	31 walls	punct
27	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 walls	nsubj
28	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 walls	cop
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 walls	det
30	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 walls	amod
31	walls	wall	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 looked	parataxis
32	of	of	ADP	_	34 cells	case
33	plant	plant	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 cells	compound
34	cells	cell	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 walls	nmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 looked	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	look	past	Robert		at a slice of cork; in 1665	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in 1665=Theme
2	see	past	Robert not said here	little boxes		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer box=Stimulus
3	call	past	Robert not said here	boxes = box		vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme cell=Result
4	is a	past	cells = cell	the dead walls	of plant cells	tree rules
5	slice			cork		nom slice «possession transitive»: of=patient

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:6.

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): R2-punct-next ×1, R3-conj-first ×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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