The microscopic world: tardigrades, mites, plankton and other tiny creatures, sentence 14

Diatoms are single-celled algae with glass shells in beautiful patterns, and they make a big share of the oxygen we breathe.

Who acts: Diatoms, we · What happens: cell, be, make, breathe, share · To what, where: celled algae, big share, oxygen

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 (Diatoms, we), 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	Diatoms	diatom	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 algae	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 algae	cop
3	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 celled	amod
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 single	punct
5	celled	cell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 algae	amod
6	algae	alga	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
7	with	with	ADP	_	9 shells	case
8	glass	glass	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 shells	compound
9	shells	shell	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 algae	nmod
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 patterns	case
11	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 patterns	amod
12	patterns	pattern	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 shells	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 make	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 make	cc
15	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 make	nsubj
16	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 algae	conj
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 share	det
18	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 share	amod
19	share	share	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 make	obj
20	of	of	ADP	_	22 oxygen	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 oxygen	det
22	oxygen	oxygen	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 share	nmod
23	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 breathe	nsubj
24	breathe	breathe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 oxygen	acl:relcl
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 algae	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	cell	participle				tree rules
2	is a	present	Diatoms	celled algae	with glass shells in beautiful patterns	tree rules
3	make	present	Diatoms = diatom	a big share of the oxygen		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset share=Product
4	breathe	present	we	the oxygen not said here		vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent oxygen=Theme
5	share			the oxygen		nom share «possession transitive»: of=patient

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:14.

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): R7-rel-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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