The microscopic world: cells, the building blocks of life, sentence 9

Animal cells, like the soft roundish cells scraped from your cheek, have a thin skin called a membrane instead of a stiff wall.

Who acts: Animal cells, thin skin · What happens: scrape, have, call · To what, where: soft roundish cells, cheek, thin skin, membrane · 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 (Animal cells, thin 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	Animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 cells	compound
2	cells	cell	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 have	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 cells	punct
4	like	like	ADP	_	8 cells	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 cells	det
6	soft	soft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 cells	amod
7	roundish	roundish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 cells	amod
8	cells	cell	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 cells	nmod
9	scraped	scrape	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 cells	acl
10	from	from	ADP	_	12 cheek	case
11	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 cheek	nmod:poss
12	cheek	cheek	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 scraped	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 cells	punct
14	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 skin	det
16	thin	thin	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 skin	amod
17	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 have	obj
18	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 skin	acl
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 membrane	det
20	membrane	membrane	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 called	xcomp
21	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=ADP	25 wall	case
22	of	of	ADP	_	21 instead	fixed
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 wall	det
24	stiff	stiff	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 wall	amod
25	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 called	obl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 have	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	scrape	participle		the soft roundish cells not said here	your cheek		vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent from cheek=Source
2	have	present	Animal cells like the soft roundish cells	a thin skin			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent skin=Patient
3	call	participle	a thin skin not said here	a membrane		instead a stiff wall	vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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:9.

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): R6-punct-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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