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title: Scoop a clump of wet moss from a wall, squeeze a drop onto a slide,… — The microscopic world: tardigrades, mites, plank… · tree and pragmatics
description: Scoop a clump of wet moss from a wall, squeeze a drop onto a slide, and you may meet a tardigrade, or water bear: a plump little animal less than a millimetre long, lumbering about on eight stubby legs. Who acts: you, plump little animal. A sentence of the lesson «The microscopic world: tardigrades,
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# The microscopic world: tardigrades, mites, plankton and other tiny creatures, sentence 0

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Scoop a clump of wet moss from a wall, squeeze a drop onto a slide, and you may meet a tardigrade, or water bear: a plump little animal less than a millimetre long, lumbering about on eight stubby legs.

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**Who acts:** you, plump little animal · **What happens:** scoop, squeeze, meet, lumber · **To what, where:** clump, wall, drop, slide, tardigrade, eight stubby legs

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The microscopic world: tardigrades, mites, plankton and other tiny creatures» 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 (you, plump little animal), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:259-the-microscopic-world-tardigrades-mites-plankton-and-other-tiny-creatures.lesson:0
# text = Scoop a clump of wet moss from a wall, squeeze a drop onto a slide, and you may meet a tardigrade, or water bear: a plump little animal less than a millimetre long, lumbering about on eight stubby legs.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 259-the-microscopic-world-tardigrades-mites-plankton-and-other-tiny-creatures.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	Scoop	scoop	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	clump	clump	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	wet	wet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	moss	moss	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	from	from	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	wall	wall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	squeeze	squeeze	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	drop	drop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	onto	onto	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	slide	slide	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
19	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
20	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	meet	meet	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	conj	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	tardigrade	tardigrade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
25	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
26	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	bear	bear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	conj	_	_
28	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	27	punct	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
30	plump	plump	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
31	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	animal	animal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	appos	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=27:appos
33	less	less	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp|ExtPos=ADV	37	advmod	_	_
34	than	than	ADP	IN	_	33	fixed	_	_
35	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	millimetre	millimetre	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obl:unmarked	_	_
37	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
39	lumbering	lumber	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	32	acl	_	_
40	about	about	ADV	RB	_	39	advmod	_	_
41	on	on	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
42	eight	eight	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	44	nummod	_	_
43	stubby	stubby	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	44	amod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=44:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
44	legs	leg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	39	obl	_	_
45	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- 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 | **scoop** | imperative | you *not said here* | a clump of wet moss |  | a wall |  |  | vn funnel-9.3 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent clump=Theme from wall=Trajectory |
| 2 | **squeeze** | infinitive | you *not said here* | a drop |  | a slide |  |  | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent drop=Theme onto slide=Destination |
| 3 | **meet** | may | you | a tardigrade or water bear |  |  |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tardigrade=Co-Agent |
| 4 | **lumber** | gerund | a plump little animal *not said here* |  |  | eight stubby legs |  | about *property* | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on leg=Trajectory |

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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:259-the-microscopic-world-tardigrades-mites-plankton-and-other-tiny-creatures.lesson:0`.

**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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