The microscopic world: tardigrades, mites, plankton and other tiny creatures, sentence 15

The smallest insects are fairy wasps, sometimes called fairy flies; some are only about a seventh of a millimetre long, smaller than some single-celled creatures.

Who acts: smallest insects, fairy wasps, some · What happens: be, call, cell · To what, where: fairy wasps, fairy flies, seventh · 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 (smallest insects, fairy wasps, some), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 insects	det
2	smallest	small	ADJ	Degree=Sup	3 insects	amod
3	insects	insect	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 wasps	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 wasps	cop
5	fairy	fairy	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 wasps	compound
6	wasps	wasp	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 called	punct
8	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	9 called	advmod
9	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 wasps	acl
10	fairy	fairy	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 flies	compound
11	flies	fly	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 called	xcomp
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 seventh	punct
13	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	18 seventh	nsubj
14	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 seventh	cop
15	only	only	ADV	_	18 seventh	advmod
16	about	about	ADV	_	18 seventh	advmod
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 seventh	det
18	seventh	seventh	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 wasps	conj
19	of	of	ADP	_	21 millimetre	case
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 millimetre	det
21	millimetre	millimetre	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 seventh	nmod
22	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	21 millimetre	advmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 smaller	punct
24	smaller	small	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	18 seventh	amod
25	than	than	ADP	_	30 creatures	case
26	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	30 creatures	det
27	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 celled	compound
28	-	-	PUNCT	_	27 single	punct
29	celled	cell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	30 creatures	amod
30	creatures	creature	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 smaller	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 wasps	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the smallest insects	fairy wasps and a seventh		tree rules
2	call	participle	fairy wasps and a seventh not said here	fairy flies	sometimes property	vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is a	present	some	a seventh	of a millimetre; about property	tree rules
4	cell	participle				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:15.

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): R2-punct-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×5, 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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