The microscopic world: viruses and vaccines, sentence 17
About 8 percent of human DNA is made of bits of old viruses that got into our ancestors long ago.
Who acts: old viruses · What happens: make, get · To what, where: 8 percent, ancestors
This is a sentence of the lesson «The microscopic world: viruses and vaccines» 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 (old viruses), 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 | About | about | ADV | _ | 2 8 | advmod |
| 2 | 8 | 8 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 percent | nummod |
| 3 | percent | percent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 made | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 DNA | case |
| 5 | human | human | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 DNA | amod |
| 6 | DNA | DNA | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 percent | nmod |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 made | aux:pass |
| 8 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 bits | case |
| 10 | bits | bit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 made | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 viruses | case |
| 12 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 viruses | amod |
| 13 | viruses | virus | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 bits | nmod |
| 14 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 got | nsubj |
| 15 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 viruses | acl:relcl |
| 16 | into | into | ADP | _ | 18 ancestors | case |
| 17 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 ancestors | nmod:poss |
| 18 | ancestors | ancestor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 got | obl |
| 19 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 20 ago | advmod |
| 20 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 15 got | advmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 made | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | present · passive | 8 percent of human DNA | of bits of old viruses | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product | ||||
| 2 | get | past | old viruses | our ancestors | ago property | vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into ancestor=Destination |
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:258-the-microscopic-world-viruses-and-vaccines.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): no change. 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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