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title: A dried tardigrade curls into a «tun» and nearly stops all life proc… — The microscopic world: tardigrades, mites, plank… · tree and pragmatics
description: A dried tardigrade curls into a «tun» and nearly stops all life processes, and in 2007 dried tardigrades survived 10 days in open space on a satellite. Who acts: dried tardigrade, dried tardigrades. A sentence of the lesson «The microscopic world: tardigrades, mites, plankton and other tiny creature
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# The microscopic world: tardigrades, mites, plankton and other tiny creatures, sentence 6

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A dried tardigrade curls into a «tun» and nearly stops all life processes, and in 2007 dried tardigrades survived 10 days in open space on a satellite.

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**Who acts:** dried tardigrade, dried tardigrades · **What happens:** dry, curl, stop, survive · **To what, where:** tun, life processes, 2007

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The microscopic world: tardigrades, mites, plankton and other tiny creatures» of the biology course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dried tardigrade, dried tardigrades), 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:6
# text = A dried tardigrade curls into a «tun» and nearly stops all life processes, and in 2007 dried tardigrades survived 10 days in open space on a satellite.
# 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	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	dried	dry	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	amod	_	_
3	tardigrade	tardigrade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	curls	curl	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	into	into	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	_
8	tun	tun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
9	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	nearly	nearly	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	stops	stop	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
13	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	15	det	_	_
14	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	processes	process	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	2007	2007	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	22	obl	_	_
20	dried	dry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	tardigrades	tardigrade	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nsubj	_	_
22	survived	survive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
23	10	10	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	24	nummod	_	_
24	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obj	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	open	open	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	space	space	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
28	on	on	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	satellite	satellite	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=27:nmod
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dry** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **curl** | present | a dried tardigrade |  |  | a tun |  |  | vn coil-9.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into tun=Destination |
| 3 | **stop** | present | a dried tardigrade *not said here* | all life processes |  |  |  | nearly *property* | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality process=Eventuality |
| 4 | **survive** | past | dried tardigrades |  |  | 2007 | day | in open space; on a satellite | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in 2007=Location |

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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.

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**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:6`.

**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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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