The microscopic world: tardigrades, mites, plankton and other tiny creatures, sentence 10

Plankton are tiny living things drifting in the sea, including algae, baby crabs, fish eggs and krill, and they are the base of the sea's food web.

Who acts: Plankton, tiny living things, mites · What happens: be, drift · To what, where: tiny living things, sea, base

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 (Plankton, tiny living things, mites), 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	Plankton	plankton	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 things	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 things	cop
3	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 things	amod
4	living	live	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 things	amod
5	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
6	drifting	drift	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 things	acl
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 sea	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 sea	det
9	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 drifting	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 algae	punct
11	including	include	ADP	_	12 algae	case
12	algae	alga	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 drifting	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 crabs	punct
14	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 crabs	compound
15	crabs	crab	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 algae	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 eggs	punct
17	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 eggs	compound
18	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 algae	conj
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 krill	cc
20	krill	krill	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 algae	conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 base	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 base	cc
23	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 base	nsubj
24	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 base	cop
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 base	det
26	base	base	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 things	conj
27	of	of	ADP	_	32 web	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 sea	det
29	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 web	nmod:poss
30	's	's	PART	_	29 sea	case
31	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 web	compound
32	web	web	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 base	nmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 things	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Plankton	tiny living things and the base			tree rules
2	drift	gerund	tiny living things and the base not said here		the sea	include algae and baby crabs and fish eggs and krill	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in sea=Trajectory
3	is a	present	mites = mite	the base		of the sea's food web	tree rules

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:10.

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, 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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