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title: Every living thing is built from cells, tiny living bricks far too s… — The microscopic world: cells, the building block… · tree and pragmatics
description: Every living thing is built from cells, tiny living bricks far too small to see with your eyes alone; you are made of tens of trillions of them. A sentence of the lesson «The microscopic world: cells, the building blocks of life» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tre
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# The microscopic world: cells, the building blocks of life, sentence 0

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Every living thing is built from cells, tiny living bricks far too small to see with your eyes alone; you are made of tens of trillions of them.

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**What happens:** build, see, make · **To what, where:** living thing, cells, you

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The microscopic world: cells, the building blocks of life» 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: what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:256-the-microscopic-world-cells-the-building-blocks-of-life.lesson:0
# text = Every living thing is built from cells, tiny living bricks far too small to see with your eyes alone; you are made of tens of trillions of them.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 256-the-microscopic-world-cells-the-building-blocks-of-life.lesson
# annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R2-punct-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2
1	Every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	3	det	_	_
2	living	living	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	built	build	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	from	from	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	cells	cell	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	tiny	tiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
10	living	living	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	bricks	brick	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	appos	_	_
12	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	14	advmod	_	_
13	too	too	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	advcl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=14:xcomp
17	with	with	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	_
20	alone	alone	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
21	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	24	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=5:punct
22	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj:pass	_	_
23	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux:pass	_	_
24	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	tens	ten	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obl	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	trillions	trillion	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nmod	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nmod	_	_
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **build** | present · passive |  | every living thing |  | cells |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V PP»: subject=Product from cell=Material |
| 2 | **see** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | with your eyes; alone *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **make** | present · passive |  | you |  |  |  | of tens of trillions of trillions | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product |

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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.

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**Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:256-the-microscopic-world-cells-the-building-blocks-of-life.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): R2-punct-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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