Microbes: bacteria and viruses, good and bad, sentence 1
Put a drop of pond water under the school microscope and a hidden zoo appears: wriggling, spinning, tiny creatures that were there all along.
Who acts: you, hidden zoo · What happens: put, appear, spin · To what, where: drop, school microscope
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 (you, hidden zoo), 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 | Put | put | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 drop | det |
| 3 | drop | drop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Put | obj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 water | case |
| 5 | pond | pond | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 water | compound |
| 6 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 drop | nmod |
| 7 | under | under | ADP | _ | 10 microscope | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 microscope | det |
| 9 | school | school | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 microscope | compound |
| 10 | microscope | microscope | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Put | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 appears | cc |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 zoo | det |
| 13 | hidden | hidden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 zoo | amod |
| 14 | zoo | zoo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 appears | nsubj |
| 15 | appears | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Put | conj |
| 16 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 15 appears | punct |
| 17 | wriggling | wriggling | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 creatures | amod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 spinning | punct |
| 19 | spinning | spin | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 22 creatures | amod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 creatures | punct |
| 21 | tiny | tiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 creatures | amod |
| 22 | creatures | creature | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 zoo | appos |
| 23 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 were | nsubj |
| 24 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 creatures | acl:relcl |
| 25 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 24 were | advmod |
| 26 | all | all | ADV | _ | 27 along | advmod |
| 27 | along | along | ADV | _ | 24 were | advmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Put | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- command
- act
- request
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put | imperative | you not said here | a drop of pond water | the school microscope | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent drop=Theme under microscope=Destination | |||
| 2 | appear | present | a hidden zoo | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | spin | gerund | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme 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:063-microbes-bacteria-and-viruses.lesson:1.
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): R6-punct-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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