The microscopic world: tardigrades, mites, plankton and other tiny creatures, sentence 6

A dried tardigrade curls into a «tun» and nearly stops all life processes, and in 2007 dried tardigrades survived 10 days in open space on a satellite.

Who acts: dried tardigrade, dried tardigrades · What happens: dry, curl, stop, survive · To what, where: tun, life processes, 2007

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 (dried tardigrade, dried tardigrades), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 tardigrade	det
2	dried	dry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 tardigrade	amod
3	tardigrade	tardigrade	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 curls	nsubj
4	curls	curl	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	into	into	ADP	_	8 tun	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 tun	det
7	«	«	PUNCT	_	8 tun	punct
8	tun	tun	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 curls	obl
9	»	»	PUNCT	_	8 tun	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 stops	cc
11	nearly	nearly	ADV	_	12 stops	advmod
12	stops	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 curls	conj
13	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	15 processes	det
14	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 processes	compound
15	processes	process	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 stops	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 survived	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 survived	cc
18	in	in	ADP	_	19 2007	case
19	2007	2007	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	22 survived	obl
20	dried	dry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 tardigrades	amod
21	tardigrades	tardigrade	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 survived	nsubj
22	survived	survive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 curls	conj
23	10	10	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	24 days	nummod
24	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 survived	obj
25	in	in	ADP	_	27 space	case
26	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 space	amod
27	space	space	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 survived	obl
28	on	on	ADP	_	30 satellite	case
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 satellite	det
30	satellite	satellite	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 survived	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 curls	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dry	participle						vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	curl	present	a dried tardigrade		a tun			vn coil-9.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into tun=Destination
3	stop	present	a dried tardigrade not said here	all life processes			nearly property	vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality process=Eventuality
4	survive	past	dried tardigrades		2007	day	in open space; on a satellite	vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in 2007=Location

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:6.

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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