The microscopic world: tardigrades, mites, plankton and other tiny creatures, sentence 18
One drop of seawater can hold millions of viruses and bacteria and many plankton.
Who acts: One drop · What happens: hold · To what, where: millions
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 (One drop), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 drop | nummod |
| 2 | drop | drop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 hold | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 seawater | case |
| 4 | seawater | seawater | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 drop | nmod |
| 5 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 hold | aux |
| 6 | hold | hold | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | millions | million | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 hold | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 viruses | case |
| 9 | viruses | virus | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 millions | nmod |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 bacteria | cc |
| 11 | bacteria | bacterium | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 viruses | conj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 plankton | cc |
| 13 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 plankton | amod |
| 14 | plankton | plankton | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 bacteria | conj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 hold | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hold | can | One drop of seawater | millions of viruses and bacteria and many plankton | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent million=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:18.
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 ×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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