Microbes: bacteria and viruses, good and bad, sentence 5
Microbes are living things too small to see with the eye alone; a typical bacterium is about 1 to 2 thousandths of a millimetre long.
Who acts: Microbes, typical bacterium · What happens: live, see, be · To what, where: things, 1 thousandths
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, typical bacterium), 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 | too | too | ADV | _ | 6 small | advmod |
| 6 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 things | amod |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 see | mark |
| 8 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 small | advcl |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 eye | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 eye | det |
| 11 | eye | eye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 see | obl |
| 12 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 8 see | advmod |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 thousandths | punct |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 bacterium | det |
| 15 | typical | typical | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 bacterium | amod |
| 16 | bacterium | bacterium | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 thousandths | nsubj |
| 17 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 thousandths | cop |
| 18 | about | about | ADV | _ | 19 1 | advmod |
| 19 | 1 | 1 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 22 thousandths | nummod |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 2 | case |
| 21 | 2 | 2 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 19 1 | nmod |
| 22 | thousandths | thousandth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 living | parataxis |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 millimetre | case |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 millimetre | det |
| 25 | millimetre | millimetre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 thousandths | nmod |
| 26 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 millimetre | amod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 living | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | 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 | with the eye; alone property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | is a | present | a typical bacterium | 1 thousandths | of a millimetre | 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:5.
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. 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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