--- title: In 1665 Robert Hooke looked at a slice of cork, saw little boxes and… — The microscopic world: cells, the building block… · tree and pragmatics description: In 1665 Robert Hooke looked at a slice of cork, saw little boxes and called them cells, like the small rooms of monks; they were the dead walls of plant cells. Who acts: Robert, cells. A sentence of the lesson «The microscopic world: cells, the building blocks of life» of the biology course of Mova' --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/256-the-microscopic-world-cells-the-building-blocks-of-life/6/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/) / [The microscopic world: cells, the buil…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/256-the-microscopic-world-cells-the-building-blocks-of-life/) / 6 # The microscopic world: cells, the building blocks of life, sentence 6 In 1665 Robert Hooke looked at a slice of cork, saw little boxes and called them cells, like the small rooms of monks; they were the dead walls of plant cells. **Who acts:** Robert, cells · **What happens:** look, see, call, be, slice · **To what, where:** little boxes, boxes, dead walls, cork · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (Robert, cells), 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:6 # text = In 1665 Robert Hooke looked at a slice of cork, saw little boxes and called them cells, like the small rooms of monks; they were the dead walls of plant cells. # 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, R3-conj-first ×1 1 In in ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 1665 1665 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 5 obl _ _ 3 Robert Robert PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 4 Hooke Hooke PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 flat _ _ 5 looked look VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 at at ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 slice slice NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 9 of of ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 cork cork NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nmod _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=5:punct 12 saw see VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 13 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 boxes box NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 obj _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 16 called call VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=12:conj 17 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 obj _ _ 18 cells cell NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 obj _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 20 like like ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 22 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 23 rooms room NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 nmod _ _ 24 of of ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 monks monk NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 nmod _ _ 26 ; ; PUNCT : _ 31 punct _ _ 27 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj _ _ 28 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 31 cop _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 30 dead dead ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 amod _ _ 31 walls wall NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 parataxis _ _ 32 of of ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 33 plant plant NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 compound _ _ 34 cells cell NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 nmod _ _ 35 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **look** | past | Robert | | | | | at a slice of cork; in 1665 | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in 1665=Theme | | 2 | **see** | past | Robert *not said here* | little boxes | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer box=Stimulus | | 3 | **call** | past | Robert *not said here* | boxes *= box* | | | | | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme cell=Result | | 4 | **is a** | past | cells *= cell* | the dead walls | | | | of plant cells | tree rules | | 5 | **slice** | | | cork | | | | | nom slice «possession 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:6`. **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, R3-conj-first ×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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [The microscopic world: cells, the buil…, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/256-the-microscopic-world-cells-the-building-blocks-of-life/5/) - next →: [The microscopic world: cells, the buil…, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/256-the-microscopic-world-cells-the-building-blocks-of-life/7/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/256-the-microscopic-world-cells-the-building-blocks-of-life/)