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title: New tools open hidden worlds: the microscope showed cells and bacter… — How scientists find out: naturalists, Darwin, th… · tree and pragmatics
description: New tools open hidden worlds: the microscope showed cells and bacteria, ringing birds' legs shows where they travel, and camera traps film snow leopards that people almost never see. Who acts: microscope, ringing, legs, camera traps. A sentence of the lesson «How scientists find out: naturalists, Da
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# How scientists find out: naturalists, Darwin, the microscope and wildlife filming, sentence 2

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New tools open hidden worlds: the microscope showed cells and bacteria, ringing birds' legs shows where they travel, and camera traps film snow leopards that people almost never see.

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**Who acts:** microscope, ringing, legs, camera traps, people · **What happens:** show, ring, travel, film, not see · **To what, where:** cells, legs, snow leopards · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (microscope, ringing, legs, camera traps), 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:2
# text = New tools open hidden worlds: the microscope showed cells and bacteria, ringing birds' legs shows where they travel, and camera traps film snow leopards that people almost never see.
# 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): R5-strong ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	New	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	tools	tool	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	open	open	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
4	hidden	hidden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	worlds	world	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
6	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	microscope	microscope	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	showed	show	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
10	cells	cell	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	bacteria	bacterium	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	conj	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	ringing	ring	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	18	csubj	_	_
15	birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nmod:poss	_	_
16	'	's	PART	POS	_	15	case	_	_
17	legs	leg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	_
18	shows	show	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
19	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	21	advmod	_	_
20	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	travel	travel	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	ccomp	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
24	camera	camera	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	traps	trap	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nsubj	_	_
26	film	film	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	conj	_	_
27	snow	snow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
28	leopards	leopard	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obj	_	_
29	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	33	obj	_	_
30	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	nsubj	_	_
31	almost	almost	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=33:advmod
32	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	33	advmod	_	_
33	see	see	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	acl:relcl	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=28:acl:relcl|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **show** | past | the microscope | cells and bacteria |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent cell=Recipient |
| 2 | **ring** | gerund |  | birds's legs |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location leg=Theme |
| 3 | **show** | present | ringing |  |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **travel** | present | legs *= leg* |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **film** | present | camera traps | snow leopards |  |  |  |  | vn transcribe-25.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leopard=Theme |
| 6 | **not** **see** | present | people | snow leopards |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer that=Stimulus |

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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): R5-strong ×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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