Microbes: bacteria and viruses, good and bad, sentence 6

The Dutch cloth merchant Antonie van Leeuwenhoek made tiny powerful lenses and was among the first to see microbes; in 1683 he described bacteria from scrapings of his own teeth.

Who acts: Dutch cloth merchant, merchant · What happens: make, be, see, describe · To what, where: tiny powerful lenses, microbes, bacteria, 1683

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 (Dutch cloth merchant, merchant), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 merchant	det
2	Dutch	dutch	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 merchant	amod
3	cloth	cloth	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 merchant	compound
4	merchant	merchant	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 made	nsubj
5	Antonie	Antonie	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 merchant	appos
6	van	Van	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Antonie	flat
7	Leeuwenhoek	Leeuwenhoek	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Antonie	flat
8	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 lenses	amod
10	powerful	powerful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 lenses	amod
11	lenses	lens	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 made	obj
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 first	cc
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 first	cop
14	among	among	ADP	_	16 first	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 first	det
16	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	8 made	conj
17	to	to	PART	_	18 see	mark
18	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 first	acl
19	microbes	microbe	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 see	obj
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 described	punct
21	in	in	ADP	_	22 1683	case
22	1683	1683	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	24 described	obl
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 described	nsubj
24	described	describe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 made	parataxis
25	bacteria	bacteria	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 described	obj
26	from	from	ADP	_	27 scrapings	case
27	scrapings	scraping	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 described	obl
28	of	of	ADP	_	31 teeth	case
29	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 teeth	nmod:poss
30	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 teeth	amod
31	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 scrapings	nmod
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 made	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	make	past	the Dutch cloth merchant	tiny powerful lenses			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset lens=Product
2	is	past	the Dutch cloth merchant not said here			first property	tree rules
3	see	to-infinitive		microbes			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer microbe=Stimulus
4	describe	past	merchant	bacteria	1683	from scrapings of merchant's own teeth	vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent bacteria=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:6.

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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