The axolotl, the tardigrade and the mantis shrimp, sentence 2

Squeeze a clump of wet moss from a wall into a dish and under a microscope you may see water bears, tiny eight-legged tardigrades plodding about like chubby bears in slow motion.

Who acts: you, tiny legged tardigrades · What happens: squeeze, see, plod · To what, where: clump, dish, water bears, microscope

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 (you, tiny legged tardigrades), 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	Squeeze	squeeze	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 clump	det
3	clump	clump	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Squeeze	obj
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 moss	case
5	wet	wet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 moss	amod
6	moss	moss	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 clump	nmod
7	from	from	ADP	_	9 wall	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 wall	det
9	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 moss	nmod
10	into	into	ADP	_	12 dish	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 dish	det
12	dish	dish	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Squeeze	obl
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 see	cc
14	under	under	ADP	_	16 microscope	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 microscope	det
16	microscope	microscope	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 see	obl
17	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	19 see	nsubj
18	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 see	aux
19	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Squeeze	conj
20	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 bears	compound
21	bears	bear	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 see	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 tardigrades	punct
23	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 tardigrades	amod
24	eight	eight	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	26 legged	nummod
25	-	-	PUNCT	_	24 eight	punct
26	legged	leg	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 tardigrades	amod
27	tardigrades	tardigrade	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 bears	appos
28	plodding	plod	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	27 tardigrades	acl
29	about	about	ADV	_	28 plodding	advmod
30	like	like	ADP	_	32 bears	case
31	chubby	chubby	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 bears	amod
32	bears	bear	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 plodding	obl
33	in	in	ADP	_	35 motion	case
34	slow	slow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 motion	amod
35	motion	motion	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 bears	nmod
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Squeeze	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	squeeze	imperative	you not said here	a clump of wet moss from a wall	a dish		vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: agent=Agent clump=Material into dish=Product
2	see	may	you	water bears	a microscope		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bear=Stimulus
3	plod	gerund	tiny legged tardigrades not said here			like chubby bears in slow motion; about property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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: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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, 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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