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title: Some microbes live in extreme places, such as boiling hot springs; t… — Microbes: bacteria and viruses, good and bad · tree and pragmatics
description: Some microbes live in extreme places, such as boiling hot springs; the bright rings of Grand Prismatic Spring in Yellowstone are mats of different microbes living at different temperatures, showing that life survives in places once thought impossible. Who acts: microbes, bright rings, different micr
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# Microbes: bacteria and viruses, good and bad, sentence 16

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Some microbes live in extreme places, such as boiling hot springs; the bright rings of Grand Prismatic Spring in Yellowstone are mats of different microbes living at different temperatures, showing that life survives in places once thought impossible.

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**Who acts:** microbes, bright rings, different microbes, life · **What happens:** live, boil, be, show, survive, think · **To what, where:** extreme places, mats, different temperatures, places · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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, bright rings, different microbes, life), 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:16
# text = Some microbes live in extreme places, such as boiling hot springs; the bright rings of Grand Prismatic Spring in Yellowstone are mats of different microbes living at different temperatures, showing that life survives in places once thought impossible.
# 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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2
1	Some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	2	det	_	_
2	microbes	microbe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	live	live	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	extreme	extreme	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	places	place	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
8	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP	12	case	_	_
9	as	as	ADP	IN	_	8	fixed	_	_
10	boiling	boil	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	12	amod	_	_
11	hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	springs	spring	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:conj
13	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	bright	bright	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	rings	ring	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nsubj	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	Grand	Grand	PROPN	NNP	_	19	flat	_	_
19	Prismatic	Prismatic	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
20	Spring	Spring	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	flat	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	Yellowstone	Yellowstone	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:nmod
23	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
24	mats	mat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	parataxis	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	different	different	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	microbes	microbe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nmod	_	_
28	living	live	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	27	acl	_	_
29	at	at	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	different	different	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	temperatures	temperature	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obl	_	_
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
33	showing	show	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	conj	_	_
34	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	36	mark	_	_
35	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nsubj	_	_
36	survives	survive	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	33	ccomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=33:parataxis
37	in	in	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	places	place	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	obl	_	_
39	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	40	advmod	_	_
40	thought	think	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	38	acl	_	_
41	impossible	impossible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	xcomp	_	_
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **live** | present | some microbes |  |  | extreme places such boiling hot springs |  |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in place=Location |
| 2 | **boil** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **is a** | present | the bright rings of Grand Prismatic | mats |  |  |  | of different microbes | tree rules |
| 4 | **live** | gerund | different microbes *not said here* |  |  | different temperatures |  |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at temperature=Location |
| 5 | **show** | gerund | some microbes *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 6 | **survive** | present | life |  |  | places |  |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in place=Location |
| 7 | **think** *speech: other* | participle |  | places *not said here* |  |  |  | impossible, once *property* | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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, 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.

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