--- title: Plankton are tiny living things drifting in the sea, including algae… — The microscopic world: tardigrades, mites, plank… · tree and pragmatics description: Plankton are tiny living things drifting in the sea, including algae, baby crabs, fish eggs and krill, and they are the base of the sea's food web. Who acts: Plankton, tiny living things, mites. 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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 (Plankton, tiny living things, mites), 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:10 # text = Plankton are tiny living things drifting in the sea, including algae, baby crabs, fish eggs and krill, and they are the base of the sea's food web. # 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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Plankton plankton NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=5:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 2 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 3 tiny tiny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 4 living live ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 6 drifting drift VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 5 acl _ _ 7 in in ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 sea sea NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 11 including include ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 algae alga NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obl _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 14 baby baby NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 compound _ _ 15 crabs crab NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 conj _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 17 fish fish NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 compound _ _ 18 eggs egg NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 conj _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 20 krill krill NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 conj _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 23 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 24 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 cop _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 base base NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 conj _ _ 27 of of ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 sea sea NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 nmod:poss _ _ 30 's 's PART POS _ 29 case _ _ 31 food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 compound _ _ 32 web web NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nmod _ _ 33 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=3:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | Plankton | tiny living things and the base | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **drift** | gerund | tiny living things and the base *not said here* | | | the sea | | include algae and baby crabs and fish eggs and krill | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in sea=Trajectory | | 3 | **is a** | present | mites *= mite* | the base | | | | of the sea's food web | tree rules | 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:10`. **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): R6-punct-agree ×1, 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. 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