DNA simply: the recipe in every cell, sentence 2

Stretched out, the DNA from one tiny cell would be about two metres long, so it is wound up very tightly, like a garden hose coiled into a matchbox.

Who acts: DNA · What happens: stretch out, be, wind up, coil · To what, where: two metres, DNA, garden hose, matchbox

This is a sentence of the lesson «DNA simply: the recipe in every cell» 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 (DNA), 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	Stretched	stretch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 metres	advcl
2	out	out	ADP	_	1 Stretched	compound:prt
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Stretched	punct
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 DNA	det
5	DNA	DNA	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 metres	nsubj
6	from	from	ADP	_	9 cell	case
7	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 cell	nummod
8	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 cell	amod
9	cell	cell	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 DNA	nmod
10	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 metres	aux
11	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	14 metres	cop
12	about	about	ADV	_	13 two	advmod
13	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 metres	nummod
14	metres	metre	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
15	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	14 metres	advmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 long	punct
17	so	so	ADV	_	20 wound	advmod
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 wound	nsubj
19	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 wound	aux:pass
20	wound	wind	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 metres	conj
21	up	up	ADP	_	20 wound	compound:prt
22	very	very	ADV	_	23 tightly	advmod
23	tightly	tightly	ADV	_	20 wound	advmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 hose	punct
25	like	like	ADP	_	28 hose	case
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 hose	det
27	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 hose	compound
28	hose	hose	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 wound	obl
29	coiled	coil	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	28 hose	acl
30	into	into	ADP	_	32 matchbox	case
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 matchbox	det
32	matchbox	matchbox	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 coiled	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Stretched	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	stretch out	participle	the DNA from one tiny cell not said here				vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	is a	would	the DNA from one tiny cell	two metres		long property	tree rules
3	wind up	present · passive		DNA		like a garden hose; tightly property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme
4	coil	participle		a garden hose not said here	a matchbox		vn coil-9.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into matchbox=Destination

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:277-dna-simply-the-recipe-in-every-cell.lesson:2.

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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