--- title: Put one drop of pond water under a school microscope and a whole hid… — The microscopic world: cells, the building block… · tree and pragmatics description: Put one drop of pond water under a school microscope and a whole hidden world swims into view: slipper-shaped paramecia rowing with tiny hairs, amoebas flowing like blobs of jelly, green algae, each of them just one single cell. Who acts: you, whole hidden world, slipper shaped paramecia, amoebas. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, whole hidden world, slipper shaped paramecia, amoebas), 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:1 # text = Put one drop of pond water under a school microscope and a whole hidden world swims into view: slipper-shaped paramecia rowing with tiny hairs, amoebas flowing like blobs of jelly, green algae, each of them just one single cell. # 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): no change 1 Put put VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 3 nummod _ _ 3 drop drop NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 4 of of ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 pond pond NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 compound _ _ 6 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nmod _ _ 7 under under ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 9 school school NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 compound _ _ 10 microscope microscope NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 13 whole whole ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 14 hidden hidden ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 world world NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ _ 16 swims swim VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 conj _ _ 17 into into ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 view view NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ _ 19 : : PUNCT : _ 23 punct _ _ 20 slipper slipper NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 compound _ _ 21 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 20 punct _ _ 22 shaped shaped ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 23 paramecia paramecium NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 appos _ _ 24 rowing row VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 23 acl _ _ 25 with with ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 tiny tiny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 27 hairs hair NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 obl _ _ 28 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 29 amoebas amoeba NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 conj _ _ 30 flowing flow VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 29 acl _ _ 31 like like ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 32 blobs blob NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 obl _ _ 33 of of ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 34 jelly jelly NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 nmod _ _ 35 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 36 green green ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 37 amod _ _ 37 algae alga NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 conj _ _ 38 , , PUNCT , _ 45 punct _ _ 39 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 45 nsubj _ _ 40 of of ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 41 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 39 nmod _ _ 42 just just ADV RB _ 45 advmod _ _ 43 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 45 nummod _ _ 44 single single ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 45 amod _ _ 45 cell cell NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 conj _ _ 46 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **put** | imperative | you *not said here* | one drop of pond water | | a school microscope | | | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent drop=Theme under microscope=Destination | | 2 | **swim** | present | a whole hidden world | | | view | | | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into view=Destination | | 3 | **row** | gerund | slipper shaped paramecia and amoebas and one single cell *not said here* | | | | | with tiny hairs | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **flow** | gerund | amoebas *not said here* | | | | | like blobs of jelly and green algae | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **cell** | | each | | | | | | 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](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: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): no change. **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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