The axolotl, the tardigrade and the mantis shrimp, sentence 11

It is a myth that tardigrades are indestructible: active wet ones die from heat or from drying too fast, and in 2019 the ones on a crashed Moon lander probably did not survive the impact.

Who acts: tardigrades, active wet ones, ones · What happens: be, die, dry, crash, not survive · To what, where: myth, heat, impact, 2019

This is a sentence of the lesson «The axolotl, the tardigrade and the mantis shrimp» 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 (tardigrades, active wet ones, ones), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 myth	expl
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 myth	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 myth	det
4	myth	myth	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 indestructible	mark
6	tardigrades	tardigrade	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 indestructible	nsubj
7	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 indestructible	cop
8	indestructible	indestructible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 myth	acl
9	:	:	PUNCT	_	13 die	punct
10	active	active	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 ones	amod
11	wet	wet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 ones	amod
12	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 die	nsubj
13	die	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 myth	parataxis
14	from	from	ADP	_	15 heat	case
15	heat	heat	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 die	obl
16	or	or	CCONJ	_	18 drying	cc
17	from	from	SCONJ	_	18 drying	mark
18	drying	dry	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 heat	conj
19	too	too	ADV	_	20 fast	advmod
20	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	18 drying	advmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 survive	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 ones	cc
23	in	in	ADP	_	24 2019	case
24	2019	2019	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	35 survive	obl
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 ones	det
26	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 survive	nsubj
27	on	on	ADP	_	31 lander	case
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 lander	det
29	crashed	crash	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	31 lander	amod
30	Moon	moon	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 lander	compound
31	lander	lander	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 ones	nmod
32	probably	probably	ADV	_	35 survive	advmod
33	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 survive	aux
34	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	35 survive	advmod
35	survive	survive	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 die	conj
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 impact	det
37	impact	impact	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 survive	obj
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 myth	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: neg
teacher: changed act=assert

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	present		a myth			tree rules
2	is	present	tardigrades	a myth not said here		indestructible property	tree rules
3	die	present	active wet ones		heat		vn die-42.4-1 «NP V PP.cause»: agent=Patient from heat=Causer
4	dry	gerund	active wet ones not said here			fast property	vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
5	crash	participle					vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
6	not survive	past · do-support	the ones on a crashed Moon lander	the impact	2019	probably property	vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme impact=Circumstance

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:044-axolotl-tardigrade-mantis-shrimp.lesson:11.

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): R1-cc-next ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2. 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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