--- title: An amoeba moves by flowing its inside forward into a bulge called a… — The microscopic world: cells, the building block… · tree and pragmatics description: An amoeba moves by flowing its inside forward into a bulge called a false foot, and it swallows food by flowing around it. Who acts: amoeba, bulge, skin. 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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 (amoeba, bulge, skin), 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:17 # text = An amoeba moves by flowing its inside forward into a bulge called a false foot, and it swallows food by flowing around it. # 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): R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 An a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 amoeba amoeba NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 moves move VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 by by SCONJ IN _ 5 mark _ _ 5 flowing flow VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 3 advcl _ _ 6 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 7 nmod:poss _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:nmod:poss 7 inside inside ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 8 forward forward ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:advmod 9 into into ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 bulge bulge NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:obj 12 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 11 acl _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 14 false false ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 foot foot NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 xcomp _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 18 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 19 swallows swallow VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 20 food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obj _ _ 21 by by SCONJ IN _ 22 mark _ _ 22 flowing flow VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 19 advcl _ _ 23 around around ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 24 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=22:obj 25 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **move** | present | a amoeba | | | | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **flow** | gerund | a amoeba *not said here* | | | a bulge | | forward *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **call** | participle | a bulge *not said here* | a false foot | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **swallow** | present | skin | food | | | | | vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Patient | | 5 | **flow around** | gerund | skin *not said here* | skin | | | | around *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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](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:17`. **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 ×2, 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. 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