--- title: Most adults have tiny Demodex mites living in the roots of their eye… — The microscopic world: tardigrades, mites, plank… · tree and pragmatics description: Most adults have tiny Demodex mites living in the roots of their eyelashes and in face pores, eating skin oils, usually without any harm; it was long said they have no bottom, but a 2022 study found they do. Who acts: Most adults, tiny Demodex mites, mites, 2022 study. 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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 (Most adults, tiny Demodex mites, mites, 2022 study), 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:9 # text = Most adults have tiny Demodex mites living in the roots of their eyelashes and in face pores, eating skin oils, usually without any harm; it was long said they have no bottom, but a 2022 study found they do. # 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, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Most most ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 2 amod _ _ 2 adults adult NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 tiny tiny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 5 Demodex Demodex PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 compound _ _ 6 mites mite NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ 7 living live VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 6 acl _ _ 8 in in ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 roots root NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obl _ _ 11 of of ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 13 nmod:poss _ _ 13 eyelashes eyelash NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 nmod _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 15 in in ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 face face NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 compound _ _ 17 pores pore NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 conj _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 19 eating eat VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 7 conj _ _ 20 skin skin NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 compound _ _ 21 oils oil NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 obj _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 23 usually usually ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 24 without without ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 any any DET DT PronType=Ind 26 det _ _ 26 harm harm NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:obl 27 ; ; PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 28 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=31:expl 29 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 31 aux:pass _ _ 30 long long ADV RB Degree=Pos 31 advmod _ _ 31 said say VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 3 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj 32 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 33 nsubj _ _ 33 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 ccomp _ _ 34 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 35 det _ _ 35 bottom bottom NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obj _ _ 36 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 37 but but CCONJ CC _ 40 cc _ _ 38 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 39 2022 2022 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 40 nummod _ _ 40 study study NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 parataxis _ _ 41 found find VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 40 acl:relcl _ _ 42 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 43 nsubj _ _ 43 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 41 ccomp _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=41:ccomp|HaikuPos=VERB:VBP:Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 44 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | present | Most adults | tiny Demodex mites | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mite=Patient | | 2 | **live** | gerund | tiny Demodex mites *not said here* | | | the roots of mites's eyelashes and face pores | | | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in root=Location | | 3 | **eat** | gerund | tiny Demodex mites *not said here* | skin oils | | | | without any harm | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent oil=Patient | | 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | past · passive | | harm | | | | long *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **have** | present | mites *= mite* | no bottom | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bottom=Patient | | 6 | **find** | past | a 2022 study *not said here* | | | | | | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent | 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:9`. **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, R7-rel-agree ×2, 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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