Microbes: bacteria and viruses, good and bad, sentence 2
Most microbes are harmless or helpful: they make yoghurt and cheese, rot dead things, and trillions of them live in your gut helping to digest food.
Who acts: Most microbes, Microbes · What happens: be, make, live, help, digest · To what, where: yoghurt, gut, food
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 (Most microbes, Microbes), 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 | Most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 2 microbes | amod |
| 2 | microbes | microbe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 harmless | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 harmless | cop |
| 4 | harmless | harmless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 6 helpful | cc |
| 6 | helpful | helpful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 harmless | conj |
| 7 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 4 harmless | punct |
| 8 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 make | nsubj |
| 9 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 harmless | parataxis |
| 10 | yoghurt | yoghurt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 make | obj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 cheese | cc |
| 12 | cheese | cheese | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 yoghurt | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 rot | punct |
| 14 | rot | rot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 make | conj |
| 15 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 things | amod |
| 16 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 rot | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 trillions | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 trillions | cc |
| 19 | trillions | trillion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 things | conj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 them | case |
| 21 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 trillions | nmod |
| 22 | live | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 make | conj |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 gut | case |
| 24 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 gut | nmod:poss |
| 25 | gut | gut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 live | obl |
| 26 | helping | help | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 22 live | advcl |
| 27 | to | to | PART | _ | 28 digest | mark |
| 28 | digest | digest | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 helping | xcomp |
| 29 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 digest | obj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 harmless | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- pos
- teacher
- changed polarity=pos
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Most microbes | harmless property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | Most microbes not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | make | present | Microbes = microbe | yoghurt and cheese | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset yoghurt=Product | ||||
| 4 | live | present | Microbes = microbe not said here | your gut | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in gut=Location | ||||
| 5 | help | gerund | Microbes = microbe not said here | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 6 | digest | to-infinitive | Microbes = microbe not said here | food | 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:063-microbes-bacteria-and-viruses.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 ×3, 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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