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title: Cartoons sometimes show cells as little people with faces and jobs;… — The microscopic world: cells, the building block… · tree and pragmatics
description: Cartoons sometimes show cells as little people with faces and jobs; real cells have no faces or brains, but each kind really does have its own job, like carrying oxygen, sensing light or making a muscle move. Who acts: Cartoons, real cells, kind. A sentence of the lesson «The microscopic world: cell
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# The microscopic world: cells, the building blocks of life, sentence 4

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Cartoons sometimes show cells as little people with faces and jobs; real cells have no faces or brains, but each kind really does have its own job, like carrying oxygen, sensing light or making a muscle move.

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**Who acts:** Cartoons, real cells, kind · **What happens:** show, have, carry, sense, make, job · **To what, where:** cells, faces, own job, oxygen, light, muscle move

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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: who acts (Cartoons, real cells, kind), 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:4
# text = Cartoons sometimes show cells as little people with faces and jobs; real cells have no faces or brains, but each kind really does have its own job, like carrying oxygen, sensing light or making a muscle move.
# 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): R3-conj-first ×1, R7-rel-agree ×4
1	Cartoons	cartoon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	3	advmod	_	_
3	show	show	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	cells	cell	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
5	as	as	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	faces	face	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	jobs	job	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	conj	_	_
12	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
13	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	cells	cell	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	_
15	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
16	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	17	det	_	_
17	faces	face	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	_
18	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	brains	brain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	conj	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
21	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
22	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	23	det	_	_
23	kind	kind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=26:obj
24	really	really	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
25	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
26	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	conj	_	_
27	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
28	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	job	job	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
31	like	like	SCONJ	IN	_	32	mark	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=32:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_
32	carrying	carry	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	26	advcl	_	_
33	oxygen	oxygen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obj	_	_
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
35	sensing	sense	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	32	conj	_	_
36	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obj	_	_
37	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
38	making	make	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	32	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=35:conj
39	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	muscle	muscle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	compound	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=41:nsubj
41	move	move	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=38:xcomp|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **show** | present | Cartoons | cells |  |  |  | as little people with faces and jobs; sometimes *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent cell=Recipient |
| 2 | **have** | present | real cells | no faces or brains |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent face=Patient |
| 3 | **have** | present · do-support | each kind | kind's own job |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent job=Patient |
| 4 | **carry** | gerund | each kind *not said here* | oxygen |  |  |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent oxygen=Theme |
| 5 | **sense** | gerund | each kind *not said here* | light |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer light=Stimulus |
| 6 | **make** | gerund | each kind *not said here* | muscle move |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset move=Product |
| 7 | **job** |  | kind |  |  |  |  |  | nom job «act intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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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**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): R3-conj-first ×1, R7-rel-agree ×4. **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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