The microscopic world: tardigrades, mites, plankton and other tiny creatures, sentence 2

Tiny creatures are all around us: dust mites in our beds, eyelash mites at the roots of our lashes, water fleas in ponds, and in the sea, drifting plankton that feed fish and even the giant blue whale.

Who acts: Tiny creatures, sea, plankton · What happens: be, drift, feed · To what, where: plankton, fish

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 (Tiny creatures, sea, plankton), 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	Tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 creatures	amod
2	creatures	creature	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 around	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 around	cop
4	all	all	ADV	_	5 around	advmod
5	around	around	ADV	_	root	root
6	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 around	obl
7	:	:	PUNCT	_	9 mites	punct
8	dust	dust	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 mites	compound
9	mites	mite	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 creatures	conj
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 beds	case
11	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 beds	nmod:poss
12	beds	bed	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 mites	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 mites	punct
14	eyelash	eyelash	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 mites	compound
15	mites	mite	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 mites	conj
16	at	at	ADP	_	18 roots	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 roots	det
18	roots	root	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 mites	nmod
19	of	of	ADP	_	21 lashes	case
20	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 lashes	nmod:poss
21	lashes	lash	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 roots	nmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 fleas	punct
23	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 fleas	compound
24	fleas	flea	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 roots	conj
25	in	in	ADP	_	26 ponds	case
26	ponds	pond	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 fleas	nmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 sea	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 sea	cc
29	in	in	ADP	_	31 sea	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 sea	det
31	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 creatures	conj
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 drifting	punct
33	drifting	drift	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	31 sea	acl
34	plankton	plankton	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 drifting	obj
35	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	36 feed	nsubj
36	feed	feed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	34 plankton	acl:relcl
37	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 feed	obj
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 whale	cc
39	even	even	ADV	_	43 whale	advmod
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 whale	det
41	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 whale	amod
42	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 whale	amod
43	whale	whale	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 fish	conj
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 us	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	Tiny creatures and dust mites in our beds and eyelash mites at the roots of our lashes and water fleas in ponds and the sea			us obl; all, around property	tree rules
2	drift	gerund	the sea not said here	plankton			vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plankton=Agent
3	feed	present	plankton		fish and the giant blue whale		vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fish=Recipient

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:2.

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, R6-punct-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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