The microscopic world: tardigrades, mites, plankton and other tiny creatures, sentence 17

A slime mould is a giant single cell with many nuclei; it can find the shortest way through a maze to food, and in a Japanese test it grew paths very like the Tokyo railway map.

Who acts: slime mould, mould · What happens: be, find, grow · To what, where: giant single cell, shortest way, maze, paths, Japanese test

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 (slime mould, mould), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 mould	det
2	slime	slime	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 mould	compound
3	mould	mould	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 cell	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 cell	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 cell	det
6	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 cell	amod
7	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 cell	amod
8	cell	cell	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	with	with	ADP	_	11 nuclei	case
10	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 nuclei	amod
11	nuclei	nucleus	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 cell	nmod
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 find	punct
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 find	nsubj
14	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 find	aux
15	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 cell	parataxis
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 way	det
17	shortest	short	ADJ	Degree=Sup	18 way	amod
18	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 find	obj
19	through	through	ADP	_	21 maze	case
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 maze	det
21	maze	maze	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 find	obl
22	to	to	ADP	_	23 food	case
23	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 maze	nmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 grew	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 grew	cc
26	in	in	ADP	_	29 test	case
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 test	det
28	Japanese	Japanese	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 test	amod
29	test	test	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 grew	obl
30	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 grew	nsubj
31	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 cell	conj
32	paths	path	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 grew	obj
33	very	very	ADV	_	38 map	advmod
34	like	like	ADP	_	38 map	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 map	det
36	Tokyo	Tokyo	PROPN	Number=Sing	38 map	compound
37	railway	railway	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 map	compound
38	map	map	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 paths	nmod
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 cell	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	present	a slime mould	a giant single cell		with many nuclei	tree rules
2	find	can	mould	the shortest way	a maze to food		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Topic
3	grow	past	mould	paths	a Japanese test	like the Tokyo railway map	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location path=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:17.

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. 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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