The microscopic world: bacteria, good and bad, sentence 1
Cartoons draw germs as angry green monsters, but most bacteria are harmless or even helpful, and only a small number make people ill.
Who acts: Cartoons, most bacteria, small number · What happens: draw, be, make · To what, where: germs, people
This is a sentence of the lesson «The microscopic world: bacteria, good and bad» 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 (Cartoons, most bacteria, small number), 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 | Cartoons | cartoon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 draw | nsubj |
| 2 | draw | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | germs | germ | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 draw | obj |
| 4 | as | as | ADP | _ | 7 monsters | case |
| 5 | angry | angry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 monsters | amod |
| 6 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 monsters | amod |
| 7 | monsters | monster | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 draw | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 harmless | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 harmless | cc |
| 10 | most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 11 bacteria | amod |
| 11 | bacteria | bacteria | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 harmless | nsubj |
| 12 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 harmless | cop |
| 13 | harmless | harmless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 draw | conj |
| 14 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 16 helpful | cc |
| 15 | even | even | ADV | _ | 16 helpful | advmod |
| 16 | helpful | helpful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 harmless | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 make | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 make | cc |
| 19 | only | only | ADV | _ | 22 number | advmod |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 number | det |
| 21 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 number | amod |
| 22 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 make | nsubj |
| 23 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 harmless | conj |
| 24 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 make | obj |
| 25 | ill | ill | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 make | xcomp |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 draw | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | draw | present | Cartoons | germs | as angry green monsters | vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent germ=Result as monster=Attribute | |||
| 2 | is | present | most bacteria | harmless property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | be | most bacteria not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | make | present | a small number | people | ill property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset people=Product |
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:257-the-microscopic-world-bacteria-good-and-bad.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): R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, 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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