The microscopic world: tardigrades, mites, plankton and other tiny creatures, sentence 4
Most life on Earth is too small to see with our eyes, and scientists still discover thousands of new microscopic kinds every year.
Who acts: Most life, scientists · What happens: be, see, discover · To what, where: thousands
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 (Most life, scientists), 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 | Most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 2 life | amod |
| 2 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 small | nsubj |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 4 Earth | case |
| 4 | Earth | Earth | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 life | nmod |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 small | cop |
| 6 | too | too | ADV | _ | 7 small | advmod |
| 7 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 see | mark |
| 9 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 small | advcl |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 eyes | case |
| 11 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 12 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 see | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 discover | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 discover | cc |
| 15 | scientists | scientist | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 discover | nsubj |
| 16 | still | still | ADV | _ | 17 discover | advmod |
| 17 | discover | discover | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 small | conj |
| 18 | thousands | thousand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 discover | obj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 kinds | case |
| 20 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 kinds | amod |
| 21 | microscopic | microscopic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 kinds | amod |
| 22 | kinds | kind | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 thousands | nmod |
| 23 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 24 year | det |
| 24 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 discover | obl:unmarked |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 small | 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 | is | present | Most life on Earth | small property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | see | to-infinitive | Most life on Earth not said here | with our eyes | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | discover | present | scientists | thousands of new microscopic kinds | still; year | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thousand=Topic |
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:4.
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): no change. 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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