The microscopic world: tardigrades, mites, plankton and other tiny creatures, sentence 3

Cartoons sometimes show plankton as one small green character with one eye, but real plankton are millions of different drifting living things, from glassy algae to baby crabs and fish eggs.

Who acts: Cartoons, real plankton · What happens: show, be, drift, live · To what, where: plankton, 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 (Cartoons, real 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	Cartoons	cartoon	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 show	nsubj
2	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	_	3 show	advmod
3	show	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	plankton	plankton	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 show	obj
5	as	as	ADP	_	9 character	case
6	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 character	nummod
7	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 character	amod
8	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 character	amod
9	character	character	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 show	obl
10	with	with	ADP	_	12 eye	case
11	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 eye	nummod
12	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 character	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 millions	punct
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 millions	cc
15	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 plankton	amod
16	plankton	plankton	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 millions	nsubj
17	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 millions	cop
18	millions	million	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 show	conj
19	of	of	ADP	_	23 things	case
20	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 things	amod
21	drifting	drift	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	23 things	amod
22	living	live	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	23 things	amod
23	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 millions	nmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 algae	punct
25	from	from	ADP	_	27 algae	case
26	glassy	glassy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 algae	amod
27	algae	alga	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 things	conj
28	to	to	ADP	_	30 crabs	case
29	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 crabs	compound
30	crabs	crab	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 algae	nmod
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 eggs	cc
32	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 eggs	compound
33	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 crabs	conj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 show	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	show	present	Cartoons	plankton	as one small green character with one eye; sometimes property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent plankton=Recipient
2	is a	present	real plankton	millions	of different drifting living things and glassy algae to baby crabs and fish eggs	tree rules
3	drift	gerund				vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	live	gerund				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:3.

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. 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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