--- title: Squeeze a clump of wet moss from a wall into a dish and under a micr… — The axolotl, the tardigrade and the mantis shrimp · tree and pragmatics description: Squeeze a clump of wet moss from a wall into a dish and under a microscope you may see water bears, tiny eight-legged tardigrades plodding about like chubby bears in slow motion. Who acts: you, tiny legged tardigrades. 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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 (you, tiny legged tardigrades), 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:2 # text = Squeeze a clump of wet moss from a wall into a dish and under a microscope you may see water bears, tiny eight-legged tardigrades plodding about like chubby bears in slow motion. # 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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Squeeze squeeze VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 clump clump NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 4 of of ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 wet wet ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 moss moss NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nmod _ _ 7 from from ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 wall wall NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nmod _ _ 10 into into ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 dish dish NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 14 under under ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 microscope microscope NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ _ 17 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 18 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 19 aux _ _ 19 see see VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 1 conj _ _ 20 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 compound _ _ 21 bears bear NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 obj _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 23 tiny tiny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 24 eight eight NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 26 nummod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=27:nummod 25 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 24 punct _ _ 26 legged leg ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=27:amod|HaikuPos=VERB:VBN:Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 27 tardigrades tardigrade NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 appos _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=21:conj 28 plodding plod VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 27 acl _ _ 29 about about ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ _ 30 like like ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 31 chubby chubby ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 amod _ _ 32 bears bear NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 obl _ _ 33 in in ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 34 slow slow ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 amod _ _ 35 motion motion NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 nmod _ _ 36 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **squeeze** | imperative | you *not said here* | a clump of wet moss from a wall | | a dish | | | vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: agent=Agent clump=Material into dish=Product | | 2 | **see** | may | you | water bears | | a microscope | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bear=Stimulus | | 3 | **plod** | gerund | tiny legged tardigrades *not said here* | | | | | like chubby bears in slow motion; about *property* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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:044-axolotl-tardigrade-mantis-shrimp.lesson:2`. **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 ×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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [The axolotl, the tardigrade and the ma…, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/44-axolotl-tardigrade-mantis-shrimp/1/) - next →: [The axolotl, the tardigrade and the ma…, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/44-axolotl-tardigrade-mantis-shrimp/3/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/44-axolotl-tardigrade-mantis-shrimp/)