--- title: Cartoons sometimes show plankton as one small green character with o… — The microscopic world: tardigrades, mites, plank… · tree and pragmatics description: Cartoons sometimes show plankton as one small green character with one eye, but real plankton are millions of different drifting living things, from glassy algae to baby crabs and fish eggs. Who acts: Cartoons, real 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 (Cartoons, real 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:3 # text = Cartoons sometimes show plankton as one small green character with one eye, but real plankton are millions of different drifting living things, from glassy algae to baby crabs and fish eggs. # 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 1 Cartoons cartoon NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 2 sometimes sometimes ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 3 show show VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 plankton plankton NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 5 as as ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 6 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 9 nummod _ _ 7 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 8 green green ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 character character NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 10 with with ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 12 nummod _ _ 12 eye eye NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nmod _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 14 but but CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 15 real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 plankton plankton NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ _ 17 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 cop _ _ 18 millions million NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 conj _ _ 19 of of ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 20 different different ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 21 drifting drift VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 23 amod _ _ 22 living live VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 23 amod _ _ 23 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 nmod _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 25 from from ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 glassy glassy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 27 algae alga NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 conj _ _ 28 to to ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 baby baby NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 compound _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=27:compound 30 crabs crab NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 nmod _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 32 fish fish NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 compound _ _ 33 eggs egg NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 conj _ _ 34 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **show** | present | Cartoons | plankton | | | | as one small green character with one eye; sometimes *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent plankton=Recipient | | 2 | **is a** | present | real plankton | millions | | | | of different drifting living things and glassy algae to baby crabs and fish eggs | tree rules | | 3 | **drift** | gerund | | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **live** | gerund | | | | | | | 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:3`. **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. **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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