The big biology quiz, part 2: plants, the body and microbes, sentence 16
DNA is the recipe for a living thing, found in almost every cell; it is written with four chemical letters, and you get half from each parent, so your parents, brothers and sisters share more of your DNA than anyone else.
Who acts: DNA, you, parents · What happens: be, find, write, get, share · To what, where: recipe, living thing, cell, DNA, half, more
This is a sentence of the lesson «The big biology quiz, part 2: plants, the body and microbes» 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, you, parents), 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 | DNA | DNA | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 recipe | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 recipe | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 recipe | det |
| 4 | recipe | recipe | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 thing | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 thing | det |
| 7 | living | living | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 thing | compound |
| 8 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 recipe | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 found | punct |
| 10 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 thing | acl |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 cell | case |
| 12 | almost | almost | ADV | _ | 14 cell | advmod |
| 13 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 14 cell | det |
| 14 | cell | cell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 found | obl |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 written | punct |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 written | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 written | aux:pass |
| 18 | written | write | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 recipe | parataxis |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 letters | case |
| 20 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 22 letters | nummod |
| 21 | chemical | chemical | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 letters | amod |
| 22 | letters | letter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 written | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 get | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 get | cc |
| 25 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 26 get | nsubj |
| 26 | get | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 written | conj |
| 27 | half | half | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 26 get | obj |
| 28 | from | from | ADP | _ | 30 parent | case |
| 29 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 30 parent | det |
| 30 | parent | parent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 get | obl |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 parents | punct |
| 32 | so | so | ADV | _ | 39 share | advmod |
| 33 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 parents | nmod:poss |
| 34 | parents | parent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 39 share | nsubj |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 brothers | punct |
| 36 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 parents | conj |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 sisters | cc |
| 38 | sisters | sister | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 parents | conj |
| 39 | share | share | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 get | advcl |
| 40 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 39 share | obj |
| 41 | of | of | ADP | _ | 43 DNA | case |
| 42 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 43 DNA | nmod:poss |
| 43 | DNA | DNA | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 more | obl |
| 44 | than | than | ADP | _ | 45 anyone | case |
| 45 | anyone | anyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 43 DNA | nmod |
| 46 | else | else | ADV | _ | 45 anyone | advmod |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 recipe | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | DNA | the recipe | for a living thing | tree rules | |||
| 2 | find | participle | a living thing not said here | every cell | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | write | present · passive | DNA | with four chemical letters | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 4 | get | present | you | half | from each parent | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent half=Theme from parent=Source | |||
| 5 | share | present | your parents and brothers and sisters | more | 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:299-the-big-biology-quiz-part-2-plants-the-body-and-microbes.lesson:16.
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): R3-conj-first ×1, R7-rel-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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