Microbes: bacteria and viruses, good and bad, sentence 0
Microbes are living things far too small to see; a thousand bacteria in a row would just about stretch across a pinhead.
Who acts: Microbes, thousand bacteria · What happens: live, see, stretch · To what, where: things, pinhead
This is a sentence of the lesson «Microbes: bacteria and viruses, good and bad» 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 (Microbes, thousand bacteria), 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 | Microbes | microbe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 living | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 living | aux |
| 3 | living | live | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 living | obj |
| 5 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 7 small | advmod |
| 6 | too | too | ADV | _ | 7 small | advmod |
| 7 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 things | amod |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 see | mark |
| 9 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 small | advcl |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 bacteria | punct |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 bacteria | det |
| 12 | thousand | thousand | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 bacteria | nummod |
| 13 | bacteria | bacteria | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 stretch | nsubj |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 row | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 row | det |
| 16 | row | row | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 bacteria | nmod |
| 17 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 stretch | aux |
| 18 | just | just | ADV | _ | 20 stretch | advmod |
| 19 | about | about | ADV | _ | 20 stretch | advmod |
| 20 | stretch | stretch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 living | parataxis |
| 21 | across | across | ADP | _ | 23 pinhead | case |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 pinhead | det |
| 23 | pinhead | pinhead | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 stretch | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 living | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | present · progressive | Microbes | things | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme thing=Location | ||||
| 2 | see | to-infinitive | Microbes not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | stretch | would | a thousand bacteria in a row | a pinhead | about property | vn meander-47.7 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme across pinhead=Location |
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:063-microbes-bacteria-and-viruses.lesson:0.
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): 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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