The microscopic world: tardigrades, mites, plankton and other tiny creatures, sentence 0
Scoop a clump of wet moss from a wall, squeeze a drop onto a slide, and you may meet a tardigrade, or water bear: a plump little animal less than a millimetre long, lumbering about on eight stubby legs.
Who acts: you, plump little animal · What happens: scoop, squeeze, meet, lumber · To what, where: clump, wall, drop, slide, tardigrade, eight stubby legs
This is a sentence of the lesson «The microscopic world: tardigrades, mites, plankton and other tiny creatures» 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 (you, plump little animal), 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 | Scoop | scoop | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 clump | det |
| 3 | clump | clump | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Scoop | obj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 moss | case |
| 5 | wet | wet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 moss | amod |
| 6 | moss | moss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 clump | nmod |
| 7 | from | from | ADP | _ | 9 wall | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 wall | det |
| 9 | wall | wall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Scoop | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 squeeze | punct |
| 11 | squeeze | squeeze | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Scoop | conj |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 drop | det |
| 13 | drop | drop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 squeeze | obj |
| 14 | onto | onto | ADP | _ | 16 slide | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 slide | det |
| 16 | slide | slide | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 squeeze | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 meet | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 meet | cc |
| 19 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 21 meet | nsubj |
| 20 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 meet | aux |
| 21 | meet | meet | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Scoop | conj |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 tardigrade | det |
| 23 | tardigrade | tardigrade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 meet | obj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 bear | punct |
| 25 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 27 bear | cc |
| 26 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 bear | compound |
| 27 | bear | bear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 tardigrade | conj |
| 28 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 27 bear | punct |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 32 animal | det |
| 30 | plump | plump | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 animal | amod |
| 31 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 animal | amod |
| 32 | animal | animal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 tardigrade | appos |
| 33 | less | less | ADJ | Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV | 37 long | advmod |
| 34 | than | than | ADP | _ | 33 less | fixed |
| 35 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 36 millimetre | det |
| 36 | millimetre | millimetre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 long | obl:unmarked |
| 37 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 animal | amod |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 lumbering | punct |
| 39 | lumbering | lumber | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 32 animal | acl |
| 40 | about | about | ADV | _ | 39 lumbering | advmod |
| 41 | on | on | ADP | _ | 44 legs | case |
| 42 | eight | eight | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 44 legs | nummod |
| 43 | stubby | stubby | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 44 legs | amod |
| 44 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 39 lumbering | obl |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Scoop | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- command
- act
- request
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | scoop | imperative | you not said here | a clump of wet moss | a wall | vn funnel-9.3 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent clump=Theme from wall=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | squeeze | infinitive | you not said here | a drop | a slide | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent drop=Theme onto slide=Destination | |||
| 3 | meet | may | you | a tardigrade or water bear | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tardigrade=Co-Agent | ||||
| 4 | lumber | gerund | a plump little animal not said here | eight stubby legs | about property | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on leg=Trajectory |
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:259-the-microscopic-world-tardigrades-mites-plankton-and-other-tiny-creatures.lesson:0.
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 ×1, R7-rel-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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