The microscopic world: tardigrades, mites, plankton and other tiny creatures, sentence 12

Water fleas are tiny see-through crustaceans that jump through water with their antennae, and under a microscope you can watch their hearts beating.

Who acts: Water fleas, tiny see crustaceans, you, hearts · What happens: see through, be, jump, watch, beat · To what, where: tiny see crustaceans, water, hearts, microscope

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 (Water fleas, tiny see crustaceans, you, hearts), 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	Water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 fleas	compound
2	fleas	flea	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 crustaceans	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 crustaceans	cop
4	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 crustaceans	amod
5	see	see	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	8 crustaceans	amod
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 see	punct
7	through	through	ADV	_	5 see	compound:prt
8	crustaceans	crustacean	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
9	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 jump	nsubj
10	jump	jump	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 crustaceans	acl:relcl
11	through	through	ADP	_	12 water	case
12	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 jump	obl
13	with	with	ADP	_	15 antennae	case
14	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 antennae	nmod:poss
15	antennae	antenna	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 jump	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 watch	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 watch	cc
18	under	under	ADP	_	20 microscope	case
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 microscope	det
20	microscope	microscope	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 watch	obl
21	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	23 watch	nsubj
22	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 watch	aux
23	watch	watch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 jump	conj
24	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 hearts	nmod:poss
25	hearts	heart	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 watch	obj
26	beating	beat	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	23 watch	xcomp
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 crustaceans	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	see through	infinitive					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	is a	present	Water fleas	tiny see crustaceans			tree rules
3	jump	present	tiny see crustaceans		water	with fleas's antennae	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through water=Trajectory
4	watch	can	you	fleas's hearts	a microscope		tree rules
5	beat	gerund	fleas's hearts not said here				vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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:12.

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): R4-particle ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2. 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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