--- title: A slime mould is a giant single cell with many nuclei; it can find t… — The microscopic world: tardigrades, mites, plank… · tree and pragmatics description: A slime mould is a giant single cell with many nuclei; it can find the shortest way through a maze to food, and in a Japanese test it grew paths very like the Tokyo railway map. Who acts: slime mould, mould. 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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 (slime mould, mould), 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:17 # text = A slime mould is a giant single cell with many nuclei; it can find the shortest way through a maze to food, and in a Japanese test it grew paths very like the Tokyo railway map. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 slime slime NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 mould mould NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 4 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 cop _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 6 giant giant ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 7 single single ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 cell cell NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 9 with with ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 nuclei nucleus NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 nmod _ _ 12 ; ; PUNCT : _ 15 punct _ _ 13 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 14 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 15 aux _ _ 15 find find VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:conj 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 17 shortest short ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 18 amod _ _ 18 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ _ 19 through through ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 maze maze NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ _ 22 to to ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nmod _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 26 in in ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 27 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 28 Japanese Japanese ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 29 test test NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obl _ _ 30 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj _ _ 31 grew grow VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 32 paths path NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 obj _ _ 33 very very ADV RB _ 38 advmod _ _ 34 like like ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 36 Tokyo Tokyo PROPN NNP Number=Sing 38 compound _ _ 37 railway railway NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 compound _ _ 38 map map NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 nmod _ _ 39 . . 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 | **is a** | present | a slime mould | a giant single cell | | | | with many nuclei | tree rules | | 2 | **find** | can | mould | the shortest way | | a maze to food | | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Topic | | 3 | **grow** | past | mould | paths | | a Japanese test | | like the Tokyo railway map | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location path=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:17`. **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): R7-rel-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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