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title: Microbes are living things far too small to see; a thousand bacteria… — Microbes: bacteria and viruses, good and bad · tree and pragmatics
description: Microbes are living things far too small to see; a thousand bacteria in a row would just about stretch across a pinhead. Who acts: Microbes, thousand bacteria. A sentence of the lesson «Microbes: bacteria and viruses, good and bad» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency t
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# Microbes: bacteria and viruses, good and bad, sentence 0

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Microbes are living things far too small to see; a thousand bacteria in a row would just about stretch across a pinhead.

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**Who acts:** Microbes, thousand bacteria · **What happens:** live, see, stretch · **To what, where:** things, pinhead

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Microbes: bacteria and viruses, good and bad» 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 (Microbes, thousand bacteria), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:063-microbes-bacteria-and-viruses.lesson:0
# text = Microbes are living things far too small to see; a thousand bacteria in a row would just about stretch across a pinhead.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 063-microbes-bacteria-and-viruses.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	Microbes	microbe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	living	live	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
5	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	7	advmod	_	_
6	too	too	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:acl
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	advcl	_	_
10	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	thousand	thousand	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	13	nummod	_	_
13	bacteria	bacteria	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	row	row	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
17	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
18	just	just	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
19	about	about	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	stretch	stretch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	parataxis	_	_
21	across	across	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	pinhead	pinhead	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **live** | present · progressive | Microbes | things |  |  |  |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme thing=Location |
| 2 | **see** | to-infinitive | Microbes *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **stretch** | would | a thousand bacteria in a row |  |  | a pinhead |  | about *property* | vn meander-47.7 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme across pinhead=Location |

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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:063-microbes-bacteria-and-viruses.lesson:0`.

**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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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