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title: Antonie van Leeuwenhoek, a cloth seller rather than a trained scient… — How scientists find out: naturalists, Darwin, th… · tree and pragmatics
description: Antonie van Leeuwenhoek, a cloth seller rather than a trained scientist, made tiny single-lens microscopes that magnified about 200 times or more and showed living cells and bacteria. Who acts: Antonie, tiny lens microscopes. A sentence of the lesson «How scientists find out: naturalists, Darwin, th
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# How scientists find out: naturalists, Darwin, the microscope and wildlife filming, sentence 10

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Antonie van Leeuwenhoek, a cloth seller rather than a trained scientist, made tiny single-lens microscopes that magnified about 200 times or more and showed living cells and bacteria.

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**Who acts:** Antonie, tiny lens microscopes · **What happens:** train, make, magnify, show · **To what, where:** tiny lens microscopes, living cells

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This is a sentence of the lesson «How scientists find out: naturalists, Darwin, the microscope and wildlife filming» 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 (Antonie, tiny lens microscopes), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:264-how-scientists-find-out-naturalists-darwin-the-microscope-and-wildlife-filming.lesson:10
# text = Antonie van Leeuwenhoek, a cloth seller rather than a trained scientist, made tiny single-lens microscopes that magnified about 200 times or more and showed living cells and bacteria.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 264-how-scientists-find-out-naturalists-darwin-the-microscope-and-wildlife-filming.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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Antonie	Antonie	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
2	van	Van	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	Leeuwenhoek	Leeuwenhoek	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	cloth	cloth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	seller	seller	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
8	rather	rather	ADV	RB	ExtPos=CCONJ	12	cc	_	_
9	than	than	ADP	IN	_	8	fixed	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	trained	train	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	amod	_	_
12	scientist	scientist	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
14	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
15	tiny	tiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
16	single	single	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
17	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	16	punct	_	_
18	lens	lens	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	microscopes	microscope	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=14:obl
20	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	21	nsubj	_	_
21	magnified	magnify	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	acl:relcl	_	_
22	about	about	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	200	200	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	24	nummod	_	_
24	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obl:unmarked	_	_
25	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	24	conj	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	showed	show	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	conj	_	_
29	living	living	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	cells	cell	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obj	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
32	bacteria	bacteria	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	conj	_	_
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	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 | **train** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **make** | past | Antonie | tiny lens microscopes |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent microscope=Product |
| 3 | **magnify** | past | tiny lens microscopes |  |  |  | time |  | vn remedy-45.7-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **show** | past | tiny lens microscopes *not said here* | living cells and bacteria |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent cell=Recipient |

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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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**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): R7-rel-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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