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title: Dried tardigrades survive great cold, high pressure and radiation, b… — The microscopic world: tardigrades, mites, plank… · tree and pragmatics
description: Dried tardigrades survive great cold, high pressure and radiation, but they are not immortal, and active tardigrades are quite fragile. Who acts: Dried tardigrades, tardigrade, active tardigrades. A sentence of the lesson «The microscopic world: tardigrades, mites, plankton and other tiny creatures»
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# The microscopic world: tardigrades, mites, plankton and other tiny creatures, sentence 7

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Dried tardigrades survive great cold, high pressure and radiation, but they are not immortal, and active tardigrades are quite fragile.

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**Who acts:** Dried tardigrades, tardigrade, active tardigrades · **What happens:** survive, not be, be · **To what, where:** great cold high pressure

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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 tardigrades, tardigrade, active 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:7
# text = Dried tardigrades survive great cold, high pressure and radiation, but they are not immortal, and active tardigrades are quite fragile.
# 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): R3-conj-first ×1
1	Dried	dried	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	tardigrades	tardigrade	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	survive	survive	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
5	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
7	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	pressure	pressure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	radiation	radiation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
12	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
13	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
14	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
15	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	16	advmod	_	_
16	immortal	immortal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
19	active	active	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	tardigrades	tardigrade	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nsubj	_	_
21	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
22	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	fragile	fragile	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=16:conj
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **survive** | present | Dried tardigrades | great cold high pressure and radiation |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme pressure=Circumstance |
| 2 | **not** **is** | present | tardigrade |  |  |  |  | immortal *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | present | active tardigrades |  |  |  |  | fragile *property* | tree rules |

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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:7`.

**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): R3-conj-first ×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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