--- title: Tiny creatures are all around us: dust mites in our beds, eyelash mi… — The microscopic world: tardigrades, mites, plank… · tree and pragmatics description: Tiny creatures are all around us: dust mites in our beds, eyelash mites at the roots of our lashes, water fleas in ponds, and in the sea, drifting plankton that feed fish and even the giant blue whale. Who acts: Tiny creatures, sea, plankton. 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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 (Tiny creatures, sea, plankton), 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:2 # text = Tiny creatures are all around us: dust mites in our beds, eyelash mites at the roots of our lashes, water fleas in ponds, and in the sea, drifting plankton that feed fish and even the giant blue whale. # 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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1 1 Tiny tiny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 creatures creature NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 3 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 4 all all ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 5 around around ADV RB _ 0 root _ _ 6 us we PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 5 obl _ _ 7 : : PUNCT : _ 9 punct _ _ 8 dust dust NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 compound _ _ 9 mites mite NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 conj _ _ 10 in in ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 our our PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 12 nmod:poss _ _ 12 beds bed NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 nmod _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 14 eyelash eyelash NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 compound _ _ 15 mites mite NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 conj _ _ 16 at at ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 roots root NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 nmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:nmod 19 of of ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 our our PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 21 nmod:poss _ _ 21 lashes lash NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 nmod _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 23 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 compound _ _ 24 fleas flea NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 conj _ _ 25 in in ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 ponds pond NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 nmod _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 29 in in ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 sea sea NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 conj _ _ 32 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 33 drifting drift VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 31 acl _ _ 34 plankton plankton NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obj _ _ 35 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 36 nsubj _ _ 36 feed feed VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 34 acl:relcl _ _ 37 fish fish NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obj _ _ 38 and and CCONJ CC _ 43 cc _ _ 39 even even ADV RB _ 43 advmod _ _ 40 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 43 det _ _ 41 giant giant ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 43 amod _ _ 42 blue blue ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 43 amod _ _ 43 whale whale NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 conj _ _ 44 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=5: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** | present | Tiny creatures and dust mites in our beds and eyelash mites at the roots of our lashes and water fleas in ponds and the sea | | | | | us *obl*; all, around *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **drift** | gerund | the sea *not said here* | plankton | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plankton=Agent | | 3 | **feed** | present | plankton | | fish and the giant blue whale | | | | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fish=Recipient | 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:2`. **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 ×1, R6-punct-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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