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title: It is a myth that tardigrades are indestructible: active wet ones di… — The axolotl, the tardigrade and the mantis shrimp · tree and pragmatics
description: It is a myth that tardigrades are indestructible: active wet ones die from heat or from drying too fast, and in 2019 the ones on a crashed Moon lander probably did not survive the impact. Who acts: tardigrades, active wet ones, ones. A sentence of the lesson «The axolotl, the tardigrade and the mant
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# The axolotl, the tardigrade and the mantis shrimp, sentence 11

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It is a myth that tardigrades are indestructible: active wet ones die from heat or from drying too fast, and in 2019 the ones on a crashed Moon lander probably did not survive the impact.

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**Who acts:** tardigrades, active wet ones, ones · **What happens:** be, die, dry, crash, not survive · **To what, where:** myth, heat, impact, 2019

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The axolotl, the tardigrade and the mantis shrimp» 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 (tardigrades, active wet ones, ones), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:044-axolotl-tardigrade-mantis-shrimp.lesson:11
# text = It is a myth that tardigrades are indestructible: active wet ones die from heat or from drying too fast, and in 2019 the ones on a crashed Moon lander probably did not survive the impact.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 044-axolotl-tardigrade-mantis-shrimp.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): R1-cc-next ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	expl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	myth	myth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
6	tardigrades	tardigrade	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
7	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
8	indestructible	indestructible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	acl	_	_
9	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
10	active	active	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
11	wet	wet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	ones	one	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
13	die	die	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
14	from	from	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	heat	heat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
16	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=15:cc
17	from	from	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
18	drying	dry	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	conj	_	_
19	too	too	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	fast	fast	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	18	advmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=18:xcomp|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=26:punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	2019	2019	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	35	obl	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	ones	one	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	nsubj	_	_
27	on	on	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
29	crashed	crash	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	31	amod	_	_
30	Moon	moon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	_
31	lander	lander	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	_
32	probably	probably	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	_
33	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	35	aux	_	_
34	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	35	advmod	_	_
35	survive	survive	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	conj	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	impact	impact	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obj	_	_
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: neg
- teacher: changed act=assert

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present |  | a myth |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | present | tardigrades | a myth *not said here* |  |  |  | indestructible *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **die** | present | active wet ones |  |  | heat |  |  | vn die-42.4-1 «NP V PP.cause»: agent=Patient from heat=Causer |
| 4 | **dry** | gerund | active wet ones *not said here* |  |  |  |  | fast *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 5 | **crash** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 6 | **not** **survive** | past · do-support | the ones on a crashed Moon lander | the impact |  | 2019 |  | probably *property* | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme impact=Circumstance |

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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:044-axolotl-tardigrade-mantis-shrimp.lesson:11`.

**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): R1-cc-next ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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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