The microscopic world: tardigrades, mites, plankton and other tiny creatures, sentence 9

Most adults have tiny Demodex mites living in the roots of their eyelashes and in face pores, eating skin oils, usually without any harm; it was long said they have no bottom, but a 2022 study found they do.

Who acts: Most adults, tiny Demodex mites, mites, 2022 study · What happens: have, live, eat, say, find · To what, where: tiny Demodex mites, roots, skin oils, harm, bottom · 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 (Most adults, tiny Demodex mites, mites, 2022 study), 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 adults	amod
2	adults	adult	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 have	nsubj
3	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 mites	amod
5	Demodex	Demodex	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 mites	compound
6	mites	mite	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 have	obj
7	living	live	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 mites	acl
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 roots	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 roots	det
10	roots	root	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 living	obl
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 eyelashes	case
12	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 eyelashes	nmod:poss
13	eyelashes	eyelash	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 roots	nmod
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 pores	cc
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 pores	case
16	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 pores	compound
17	pores	pore	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 roots	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 eating	punct
19	eating	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 living	conj
20	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 oils	compound
21	oils	oil	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 eating	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 harm	punct
23	usually	usually	ADV	_	26 harm	advmod
24	without	without	ADP	_	26 harm	case
25	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	26 harm	det
26	harm	harm	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 eating	obl
27	;	;	PUNCT	_	31 said	punct
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 said	nsubj
29	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 said	aux:pass
30	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	31 said	advmod
31	said	say	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 have	parataxis
32	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 have	nsubj
33	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 said	ccomp
34	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	35 bottom	det
35	bottom	bottom	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 have	obj
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 study	punct
37	but	but	CCONJ	_	40 study	cc
38	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	40 study	det
39	2022	2022	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	40 study	nummod
40	study	study	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 have	parataxis
41	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	40 study	acl:relcl
42	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 do	nsubj
43	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	41 found	ccomp
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 have	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	present	Most adults	tiny Demodex mites			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mite=Patient
2	live	gerund	tiny Demodex mites not said here		the roots of mites's eyelashes and face pores		vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in root=Location
3	eat	gerund	tiny Demodex mites not said here	skin oils		without any harm	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent oil=Patient
4	say speech: assert	past · passive		harm		long property	tree rules
5	have	present	mites = mite	no bottom			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bottom=Patient
6	find	past	a 2022 study not said here				vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent

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:9.

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, R7-rel-agree ×2, 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.

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