The microscopic world: tardigrades, mites, plankton and other tiny creatures, sentence 5

Tardigrades, or water bears, are tiny eight-legged animals less than a millimetre long that often live in moss; they were first described by Johann Goeze in 1773, who called them little water bears.

Who acts: Tardigrades, tiny legged animals, Johann · What happens: be, live, describe, call · To what, where: tiny legged animals, moss, tardigrade, 1773 · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Tardigrades, tiny legged animals, Johann), 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	Tardigrades	tardigrade	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 animals	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 bears	punct
3	or	or	CCONJ	_	5 bears	cc
4	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 bears	compound
5	bears	bear	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Tardigrades	conj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Tardigrades	punct
7	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 animals	cop
8	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 animals	amod
9	eight	eight	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 legged	nummod
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 eight	punct
11	legged	leg	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 animals	amod
12	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
13	less	less	ADJ	Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV	16 millimetre	advmod
14	than	than	ADP	_	13 less	fixed
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 millimetre	det
16	millimetre	millimetre	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 long	obl
17	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 animals	amod
18	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 live	nsubj
19	often	often	ADV	_	20 live	advmod
20	live	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 animals	acl:relcl
21	in	in	ADP	_	22 moss	case
22	moss	moss	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 live	obl
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 described	punct
24	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 described	nsubj:pass
25	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 described	aux:pass
26	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	27 described	advmod
27	described	describe	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 animals	parataxis
28	by	by	ADP	_	29 Johann	case
29	Johann	Johann	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 described	obl
30	Goeze	Goeze	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 Johann	flat
31	in	in	ADP	_	32 1773	case
32	1773	1773	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	27 described	obl
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 called	punct
34	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	35 called	nsubj
35	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 Johann	acl:relcl
36	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 called	obj
37	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 bears	amod
38	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 bears	compound
39	bears	bear	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 called	xcomp
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 animals	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Tardigrades or water bears	tiny legged animals			tree rules
2	live	present	tiny legged animals		moss	often property	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in moss=Location
3	describe	past · passive	Johann	tardigrade	1773	first property	vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent subject=Theme
4	call	past	Johann	tardigrade			vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=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:5.

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 ×5, R7-rel-agree ×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.

See the release 0.4.

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