--- title: Electron microscopes use beams of electrons instead of light and sho… — The microscopic world: cells, the building block… · tree and pragmatics description: Electron microscopes use beams of electrons instead of light and show things thousands of times smaller than a light microscope can, such as the spiky shapes of pollen grains. Who acts: Electron microscopes. 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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 (Electron microscopes), 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:18 # text = Electron microscopes use beams of electrons instead of light and show things thousands of times smaller than a light microscope can, such as the spiky shapes of pollen grains. # 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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Electron electron NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 microscopes microscope NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 use use VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 beams beam NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ 5 of of ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 electrons electron NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nmod _ _ 7 instead instead ADV RB ExtPos=ADP 9 case _ _ 8 of of ADP IN _ 7 fixed _ _ 9 light light NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 11 show show VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 12 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 obj _ _ 13 thousands thousand NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 nsubj _ _ 14 of of ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 times time NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 nmod _ _ 16 smaller small ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 12 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=12:acl 17 than than ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 18 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 19 light light NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 compound _ _ 20 microscope microscope NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ _ 21 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 16 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=20:aux 22 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 23 such such ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP 27 case _ _ 24 as as ADP IN _ 23 fixed _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 26 spiky spiky ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 27 shapes shape NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 conj _ _ 28 of of ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 pollen pollen NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 compound _ _ 30 grains grain NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 nmod _ _ 31 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **use** | present | Electron microscopes | beams of electrons | | | | instead light | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beam=Patient | | 2 | **show** | present | Electron microscopes *not said here* | things and the spiky shapes of pollen grains | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent thing=Recipient | | 3 | **beam** | | | electrons | | | | | nom beam «communication transitive»: of=patient | 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:18`. **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, 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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