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title: About as many bacteria live in and on your body as there are cells o… — The microscopic world: bacteria, good and bad · tree and pragmatics
description: About as many bacteria live in and on your body as there are cells of your own, mostly in the gut, and together they weigh about 200 grams. Who acts: many bacteria, cells, Bacteria. A sentence of the lesson «The microscopic world: bacteria, good and bad» of the biology course of Mova's primary schoo
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# The microscopic world: bacteria, good and bad, sentence 9

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About as many bacteria live in and on your body as there are cells of your own, mostly in the gut, and together they weigh about 200 grams.

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**Who acts:** many bacteria, cells, Bacteria · **What happens:** live, be, weigh · **To what, where:** body, 200 grams

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The microscopic world: bacteria, good and bad» 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 (many bacteria, cells, Bacteria), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:257-the-microscopic-world-bacteria-good-and-bad.lesson:9
# text = About as many bacteria live in and on your body as there are cells of your own, mostly in the gut, and together they weigh about 200 grams.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 257-the-microscopic-world-bacteria-good-and-bad.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
1	About	about	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	as	as	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	bacteria	bacterium	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	live	live	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	on	on	ADP	IN	_	6	conj	_	_
9	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
11	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
12	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	13	expl	_	_
13	are	be	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	advcl	_	_
14	cells	cell	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	nmod	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	mostly	mostly	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	gut	gut	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
25	together	together	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
26	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
27	weigh	weigh	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:conj
28	about	about	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
29	200	200	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	30	nummod	_	_
30	grams	gram	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obj	_	_
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **live** | present | many bacteria |  |  | your body |  |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in body=Location |
| 2 | **does** | present | cells of your own and the gut |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **weigh** | present | Bacteria *= bacterium* | 200 grams |  |  |  | together *property* | vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme gram=Value |

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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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**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:257-the-microscopic-world-bacteria-good-and-bad.lesson:9`.

**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. **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/).

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