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title: Most viruses are much smaller than bacteria and too small to be seen… — The microscopic world: viruses and vaccines · tree and pragmatics
description: Most viruses are much smaller than bacteria and too small to be seen with an ordinary light microscope. Who acts: Most viruses. A sentence of the lesson «The microscopic world: viruses and vaccines» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every c
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# The microscopic world: viruses and vaccines, sentence 7

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Most viruses are much smaller than bacteria and too small to be seen with an ordinary light microscope.

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**Who acts:** Most viruses · **What happens:** be, see

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The microscopic world: viruses and vaccines» 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 (Most viruses), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:258-the-microscopic-world-viruses-and-vaccines.lesson:7
# text = Most viruses are much smaller than bacteria and too small to be seen with an ordinary light microscope.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 258-the-microscopic-world-viruses-and-vaccines.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): R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	2	amod	_	_
2	viruses	virus	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	much	much	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	smaller	small	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	_
6	than	than	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	bacteria	bacterium	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=5:obl|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	too	too	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
12	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	aux:pass	_	_
13	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	advcl	_	_
14	with	with	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
15	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
16	ordinary	ordinary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
17	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	microscope	microscope	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Most viruses |  |  |  |  | than bacteria; small *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  | Most viruses *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **see** | to-infinitive · passive | Most viruses *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with a ordinary light microscope | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V» |

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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:258-the-microscopic-world-viruses-and-vaccines.lesson:7`.

**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): R8-pos-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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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