--- title: Water fleas are tiny see-through crustaceans that jump through water… — The microscopic world: tardigrades, mites, plank… · tree and pragmatics description: Water fleas are tiny see-through crustaceans that jump through water with their antennae, and under a microscope you can watch their hearts beating. Who acts: Water fleas, tiny see crustaceans, you, hearts. 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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 (Water fleas, tiny see crustaceans, you, hearts), 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:12 # text = Water fleas are tiny see-through crustaceans that jump through water with their antennae, and under a microscope you can watch their hearts beating. # 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): R4-particle ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 fleas flea NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 nsubj _ _ 3 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 cop _ _ 4 tiny tiny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 5 see see VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 8 amod _ _ 6 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 5 punct _ _ 7 through through ADV RB _ 5 compound:prt _ Agree=R4-particle|Haiku=5:compound 8 crustaceans crustacean NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 9 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 10 nsubj _ _ 10 jump jump VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 acl:relcl _ _ 11 through through ADP IN _ 12 case _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=12:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_ 12 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:obj 13 with with ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 15 nmod:poss _ _ 15 antennae antenna NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obl _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 18 under under ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 microscope microscope NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ _ 21 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 22 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 23 aux _ _ 23 watch watch VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 conj _ _ 24 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 25 nmod:poss _ _ 25 hearts heart NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 obj _ _ 26 beating beat VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 23 xcomp _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=25:acl 27 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **see through** | infinitive | | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 2 | **is a** | present | Water fleas | tiny see crustaceans | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **jump** | present | tiny see crustaceans | | | water | | with fleas's antennae | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through water=Trajectory | | 4 | **watch** | can | you | fleas's hearts | | a microscope | | | tree rules | | 5 | **beat** | gerund | fleas's hearts *not said here* | | | | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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:12`. **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): R4-particle ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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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