The microscopic world: tardigrades, mites, plankton and other tiny creatures, sentence 1

When its moss dries out, a tardigrade curls into a dry little barrel called a «tun» and almost stops living; add water, even years later, and it can wake up and walk off again.

Who acts: moss, tardigrade, dry little barrel, water · What happens: dry out, curl, call, stop, live, add · To what, where: dry little barrel, tun · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (moss, tardigrade, dry little barrel, water), 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	When	when	SCONJ	_	4 dries	mark
2	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 moss	nmod:poss
3	moss	moss	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 dries	nsubj
4	dries	dry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 curls	advcl
5	out	out	ADP	_	4 dries	compound:prt
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 dries	punct
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 tardigrade	det
8	tardigrade	tardigrade	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 curls	nsubj
9	curls	curl	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	into	into	ADP	_	14 barrel	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 barrel	det
12	dry	dry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 barrel	amod
13	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 barrel	amod
14	barrel	barrel	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 curls	obl
15	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	14 barrel	acl
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 tun	det
17	«	«	PUNCT	_	18 tun	punct
18	tun	tun	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 called	xcomp
19	»	»	PUNCT	_	18 tun	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 stops	cc
21	almost	almost	ADV	_	22 stops	advmod
22	stops	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 curls	conj
23	living	live	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	22 stops	xcomp
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 add	punct
25	add	add	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 curls	conj
26	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 add	obj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 years	punct
28	even	even	ADV	_	29 years	advmod
29	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 later	obl:unmarked
30	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	25 add	advmod
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 wake	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 wake	cc
33	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 wake	nsubj
34	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	35 wake	aux
35	wake	wake	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 add	conj
36	up	up	ADP	_	35 wake	compound:prt
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 walk	cc
38	walk	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	35 wake	conj
39	off	off	ADP	_	38 walk	compound:prt
40	again	again	ADV	_	38 walk	advmod
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 curls	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dry out	present	animal's moss					vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	curl	present	a tardigrade		a dry little barrel			vn coil-9.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into barrel=Destination
3	call	participle	a dry little barrel not said here	a tun				vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	stop	present	a tardigrade not said here				almost property	vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
5	live	gerund	a tardigrade not said here					vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	add speech: assert	infinitive	water				late property	vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient
7	wake up	can	moss					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
8	walk off	infinitive	moss not said here			again		vn resign-10.11-2 «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:259-the-microscopic-world-tardigrades-mites-plankton-and-other-tiny-creatures.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): 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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