--- title: Tardigrades, or water bears, are tiny eight-legged animals less than… — The microscopic world: tardigrades, mites, plank… · tree and pragmatics description: Tardigrades, or water bears, are tiny eight-legged animals less than a millimetre long that often live in moss; they were first described by Johann Goeze in 1773, who called them little water bears. Who acts: Tardigrades, tiny legged animals, Johann. 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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 (Tardigrades, tiny legged animals, Johann), 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:5 # text = Tardigrades, or water bears, are tiny eight-legged animals less than a millimetre long that often live in moss; they were first described by Johann Goeze in 1773, who called them little water bears. # 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 ×5, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Tardigrades tardigrade NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 nsubj _ _ 2 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 3 or or CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 4 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 compound _ _ 5 bears bear NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 conj _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 7 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 cop _ _ 8 tiny tiny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 9 eight eight NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 11 nummod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:nummod 10 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 9 punct _ _ 11 legged leg ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=12:amod|HaikuPos=VERB:VBN:Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 12 animals animal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 13 less less ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp|ExtPos=ADV 16 advmod _ _ 14 than than ADP IN _ 13 fixed _ _ 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 millimetre millimetre NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:nmod 17 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:amod 18 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 20 nsubj _ _ 19 often often ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 20 live live VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 acl:relcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:acl:relcl 21 in in ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 moss moss NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ _ 23 ; ; PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 24 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj:pass _ _ 25 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 27 aux:pass _ _ 26 first first ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 27 advmod _ _ 27 described describe VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 12 parataxis _ _ 28 by by ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 29 Johann Johann PROPN NNP Number=Sing 27 obl _ _ 30 Goeze Goeze PROPN NNP Number=Sing 29 flat _ _ 31 in in ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 32 1773 1773 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 27 obl _ _ 33 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 34 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 35 nsubj _ _ 35 called call VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 29 acl:relcl _ _ 36 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 35 obj _ _ 37 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 39 amod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=38:amod 38 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 compound _ _ 39 bears bear NOUN NNS Number=Plur 35 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=35:obj 40 . . PUNCT . _ 12 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 | Tardigrades or water bears | tiny legged animals | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **live** | present | tiny legged animals | | | moss | | often *property* | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in moss=Location | | 3 | **describe** | past · passive | Johann | tardigrade | | 1773 | | first *property* | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent subject=Theme | | 4 | **call** | past | Johann | tardigrade | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=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:5`. **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 ×5, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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