--- title: «Sea monkeys» are brine shrimps whose dried eggs can wait for years… — The microscopic world: tardigrades, mites, plank… · tree and pragmatics description: «Sea monkeys» are brine shrimps whose dried eggs can wait for years and hatch in salt water, so when their salty lake dries up, the eggs wait until the water comes back; in the wild they live in very salty lakes where fish cannot live. Who acts: Sea monkeys, dried eggs, salty lake, eggs. 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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 (Sea monkeys, dried eggs, salty lake, eggs), 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:16 # text = «Sea monkeys» are brine shrimps whose dried eggs can wait for years and hatch in salt water, so when their salty lake dries up, the eggs wait until the water comes back; in the wild they live in very salty lakes where fish cannot live. # 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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3 1 « « PUNCT `` _ 3 punct _ _ 2 Sea Sea PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 monkeys monkey NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nsubj _ _ 4 » » PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ 5 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 6 brine brine NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 compound _ _ 7 shrimps shrimp NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 8 whose whose PRON WP$ Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel 10 nmod:poss _ _ 9 dried dry VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 10 amod _ _ 10 eggs egg NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 nsubj _ _ 11 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 12 aux _ _ 12 wait wait VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 acl:relcl _ _ 13 for for ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 obl _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 16 hatch hatch VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 conj _ _ 17 in in ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 salt salt NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 compound _ _ 19 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=26:punct 21 so so ADV RB _ 31 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=26:advmod 22 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 26 advmod _ _ 23 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 25 nmod:poss _ _ 24 salty salty ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=25:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 25 lake lake NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nsubj _ _ 26 dries dry VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 advcl _ _ 27 up up ADP RP _ 26 compound:prt _ _ 28 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 eggs egg NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 nsubj _ _ 31 wait wait VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 32 until until SCONJ IN _ 35 mark _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 nsubj _ _ 35 comes come VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 advcl _ _ 36 back back ADV RB _ 35 advmod _ _ 37 ; ; PUNCT : _ 40 punct _ _ 38 in in ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 39 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 40 wild wild NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=31:obl 41 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 42 nsubj _ _ 42 live live VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:conj 43 in in ADP IN _ 46 case _ _ 44 very very ADV RB _ 45 advmod _ _ 45 salty salty ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 46 amod _ _ 46 lakes lake NOUN NNS Number=Plur 42 obl _ _ 47 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 51 advmod _ _ 48 fish fish NOUN NNS Number=Plur 51 nsubj _ _ 49 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 51 aux _ _ 50 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 51 advmod _ _ 51 live live VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 46 acl:relcl _ _ 52 . . PUNCT . _ 7 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 | Sea monkeys | brine shrimps | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **dry** | participle | | | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 3 | **wait** | can | dried eggs | | | | year | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **hatch** | present | dried eggs *not said here* | | | salt water | | | vn grow-26.2.1 «NP.patient V PP.product»: agent=Patient | | 5 | **dry up** | present | eggs's salty lake | | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 6 | **wait** | present | the eggs | | | | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **come back** | present | the water | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 8 | **live** | present | eggs *= egg* | | | the wild | | in salty lakes | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in wild=Location | | 9 | **not** **live** | can | fish | | | | | | vn exist-47.1-1 «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:16`. **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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3. **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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