DNA simply: the recipe in every cell, sentence 4

Small copying mistakes in DNA, called mutations, are how living things slowly change, so DNA is both the recipe of one body and the long history of life.

Who acts: Small copying mistakes, DNA · What happens: call, be · To what, where: mutations, recipe · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Small copying mistakes, 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	Small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 mistakes	amod
2	copying	copying	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 mistakes	compound
3	mistakes	mistake	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 change	nsubj
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 DNA	case
5	DNA	DNA	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 mistakes	nmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 called	punct
7	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 mistakes	acl
8	mutations	mutation	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 called	xcomp
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 mistakes	punct
10	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 change	cop
11	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	15 change	advmod
12	living	live	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 things	amod
13	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 change	nsubj
14	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	15 change	advmod
15	change	change	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 recipe	punct
17	so	so	ADV	_	22 recipe	advmod
18	DNA	DNA	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 recipe	nsubj
19	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 recipe	cop
20	both	both	CCONJ	_	22 recipe	cc:preconj
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 recipe	det
22	recipe	recipe	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 change	parataxis
23	of	of	ADP	_	25 body	case
24	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	25 body	nummod
25	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 recipe	nmod
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 history	cc
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 history	det
28	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 history	amod
29	history	history	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 recipe	conj
30	of	of	ADP	_	31 life	case
31	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 history	nmod
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 change	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	call	participle	Small copying mistakes in DNA not said here	mutations		vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	Small copying mistakes in DNA		change, slowly property	tree rules
3	is a	present	DNA	the recipe and the long history of life	of one body	tree rules

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: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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