--- title: When its moss dries out, a tardigrade curls into a dry little barrel… — The microscopic world: tardigrades, mites, plank… · tree and pragmatics description: When its moss dries out, a tardigrade curls into a dry little barrel called a «tun» and almost stops living; add water, even years later, and it can wake up and walk off again. Who acts: moss, tardigrade, dry little barrel, water. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (moss, tardigrade, dry little barrel, water), 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:1 # text = When its moss dries out, a tardigrade curls into a dry little barrel called a «tun» and almost stops living; add water, even years later, and it can wake up and walk off again. # 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): R3-conj-first ×1 1 When when SCONJ WRB _ 4 mark _ _ 2 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 3 nmod:poss _ _ 3 moss moss NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 dries dry VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 advcl _ _ 5 out out ADP RP _ 4 compound:prt _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 tardigrade tardigrade NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 9 curls curl VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 10 into into ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 12 dry dry ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 13 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 barrel barrel NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 15 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 14 acl _ _ 16 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 17 « « PUNCT `` _ 18 punct _ _ 18 tun tun NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 xcomp _ _ 19 » » PUNCT '' _ 18 punct _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 21 almost almost ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 22 stops stop VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 23 living live VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 22 xcomp _ _ 24 ; ; PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 25 add add VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=22:conj 26 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obj _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 28 even even ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ _ 29 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 obl:unmarked _ _ 30 later late ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 25 advmod _ _ 31 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 33 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 35 nsubj _ _ 34 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 35 aux _ _ 35 wake wake VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 25 conj _ _ 36 up up ADP RP _ 35 compound:prt _ _ 37 and and CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 38 walk walk VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 35 conj _ _ 39 off off ADP RP _ 38 compound:prt _ _ 40 again again ADV RB _ 38 advmod _ _ 41 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **dry out** | present | animal's moss | | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 2 | **curl** | present | a tardigrade | | | a dry little barrel | | | vn coil-9.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into barrel=Destination | | 3 | **call** | participle | a dry little barrel *not said here* | a tun | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **stop** | present | a tardigrade *not said here* | | | | | almost *property* | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | | 5 | **live** | gerund | a tardigrade *not said here* | | | | | | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **add** *speech: assert* | infinitive | water | | | | | late *property* | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient | | 7 | **wake up** | can | moss | | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 8 | **walk off** | infinitive | moss *not said here* | | | | again | | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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:259-the-microscopic-world-tardigrades-mites-plankton-and-other-tiny-creatures.lesson:1`. **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. **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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