--- title: Rotifers are tiny animals with a crown of beating hairs that looks l… — The microscopic world: tardigrades, mites, plank… · tree and pragmatics description: Rotifers are tiny animals with a crown of beating hairs that looks like spinning wheels, and some were reported to revive after about 24,000 years frozen in Siberian ice, because frozen they stop nearly all life processes, like a dried tardigrade. Who acts: Rotifers, crown, hairs. 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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 (Rotifers, crown, hairs), 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:13 # text = Rotifers are tiny animals with a crown of beating hairs that looks like spinning wheels, and some were reported to revive after about 24,000 years frozen in Siberian ice, because frozen they stop nearly all life processes, like a dried tardigrade. # 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 ×2, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 Rotifers rotifer NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 2 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 3 tiny tiny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 animals animal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 5 with with ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 crown crown NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nmod _ _ 8 of of SCONJ IN _ 9 mark _ _ 9 beating beat VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 7 acl _ _ 10 hairs hair NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:obj 11 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 12 nsubj _ _ 12 looks look VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 acl:relcl _ _ 13 like like ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 spinning spin VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 15 amod _ _ 15 wheels wheel NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 obl _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 18 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 20 nsubj:pass _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=20:nsubj:pass|HaikuPos=PRON:DT:PronType=Ind 19 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 20 aux:pass _ _ 20 reported report VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 12 conj _ _ 21 to to PART TO _ 22 mark _ _ 22 revive revive VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 20 xcomp _ _ 23 after after ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 24 about about ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 25 24,000 24000 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 26 nummod _ _ 26 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 obl _ _ 27 frozen freeze VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 26 acl _ _ 28 in in ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 Siberian siberian ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 30 ice ice NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obl _ _ 31 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 32 because because SCONJ IN _ 33 mark _ _ 33 frozen freeze VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 22 advcl _ _ 34 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 35 nsubj _ _ 35 stop stop VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 33 conj _ _ 36 nearly nearly ADV RB _ 37 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=39:advmod 37 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 39 det _ _ 38 life life NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 compound _ _ 39 processes process NOUN NNS Number=Plur 35 obj _ _ 40 , , PUNCT , _ 44 punct _ _ 41 like like ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 42 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 44 det _ _ 43 dried dry VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 44 amod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=44:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 44 tardigrade tardigrade NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 parataxis _ _ 45 . . PUNCT . _ 4 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 | **is a** | present | Rotifers | tiny animals | | | | with a crown hairs | tree rules | | 2 | **beat** | gerund | a crown hairs *not said here* | | | | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **look** | present | hairs | | | | | like spinning wheels | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 4 | **spin** | gerund | | | | | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **report** | past · passive | | some | | | | | vn characterize-29.2-1-2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: subject=Theme clause=Attribute | | 6 | **revive** | to-infinitive | | | | | year | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 7 | **freeze** | participle | | 24,000 years *not said here* | | Siberian ice | | | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 8 | **freeze** | participle | | | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 9 | **stop** | present | Rotifers *= rotifer* | all life processes | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality process=Eventuality | | 10 | **dry** | participle | | | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | 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:13`. **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 ×2, R8-pos-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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