The microscopic world: tardigrades, mites, plankton and other tiny creatures, sentence 16

«Sea monkeys» are brine shrimps whose dried eggs can wait for years and hatch in salt water, so when their salty lake dries up, the eggs wait until the water comes back; in the wild they live in very salty lakes where fish cannot live.

Who acts: Sea monkeys, dried eggs, salty lake, eggs, water, fish · What happens: be, dry, wait, hatch, dry up, come back · To what, where: brine shrimps, salt water, wild

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 (Sea monkeys, dried eggs, salty lake, eggs), 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	«	«	PUNCT	_	3 monkeys	punct
2	Sea	Sea	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 monkeys	compound
3	monkeys	monkey	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 shrimps	nsubj
4	»	»	PUNCT	_	3 monkeys	punct
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 shrimps	cop
6	brine	brine	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 shrimps	compound
7	shrimps	shrimp	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
8	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	10 eggs	nmod:poss
9	dried	dry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 eggs	amod
10	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 wait	nsubj
11	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 wait	aux
12	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 shrimps	acl:relcl
13	for	for	ADP	_	14 years	case
14	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 wait	obl
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 hatch	cc
16	hatch	hatch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 wait	conj
17	in	in	ADP	_	19 water	case
18	salt	salt	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 water	compound
19	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 hatch	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 wait	punct
21	so	so	ADV	_	31 wait	advmod
22	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	26 dries	advmod
23	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 lake	nmod:poss
24	salty	salty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 lake	amod
25	lake	lake	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 dries	nsubj
26	dries	dry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 wait	advcl
27	up	up	ADP	_	26 dries	compound:prt
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 wait	punct
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 eggs	det
30	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 wait	nsubj
31	wait	wait	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 shrimps	parataxis
32	until	until	SCONJ	_	35 comes	mark
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 water	det
34	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 comes	nsubj
35	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 wait	advcl
36	back	back	ADV	_	35 comes	advmod
37	;	;	PUNCT	_	40 wild	punct
38	in	in	ADP	_	40 wild	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 wild	det
40	wild	wild	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 live	obl
41	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 live	nsubj
42	live	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 shrimps	parataxis
43	in	in	ADP	_	46 lakes	case
44	very	very	ADV	_	45 salty	advmod
45	salty	salty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	46 lakes	amod
46	lakes	lake	NOUN	Number=Plur	42 live	obl
47	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	51 live	advmod
48	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Plur	51 live	nsubj
49	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	51 live	aux
50	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	51 live	advmod
51	live	live	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	46 lakes	acl:relcl
52	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 shrimps	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	is a	present	Sea monkeys	brine shrimps				tree rules
2	dry	participle						vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	wait	can	dried eggs			year		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	hatch	present	dried eggs not said here		salt water			vn grow-26.2.1 «NP.patient V PP.product»: agent=Patient
5	dry up	present	eggs's salty lake					vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
6	wait	present	the eggs					vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	come back	present	the water					vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	live	present	eggs = egg		the wild		in salty lakes	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in wild=Location
9	not live	can	fish					vn exist-47.1-1 «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:16.

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): R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3. 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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