--- title: Most microbes are harmless or helpful: they make yoghurt and cheese,… — Microbes: bacteria and viruses, good and bad · tree and pragmatics description: Most microbes are harmless or helpful: they make yoghurt and cheese, rot dead things, and trillions of them live in your gut helping to digest food. Who acts: Most microbes, Microbes. 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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 (Most microbes, Microbes), 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:2 # text = Most microbes are harmless or helpful: they make yoghurt and cheese, rot dead things, and trillions of them live in your gut helping to digest food. # 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 ×3, R6-punct-agree ×1 1 Most most ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 2 amod _ _ 2 microbes microbe NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 3 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 4 harmless harmless ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 5 or or CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 6 helpful helpful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 conj _ _ 7 : : PUNCT : _ 4 punct _ _ 8 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 9 make make VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 10 yoghurt yoghurt NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 cheese cheese NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 conj _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 14 rot rot NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:conj 15 dead dead ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 obj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=22:nsubj 17 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 19 trillions trillion NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 conj _ _ 20 of of ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 nmod _ _ 22 live live VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 23 in in ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 25 nmod:poss _ _ 25 gut gut NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl _ _ 26 helping help VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 22 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=25:acl 27 to to PART TO _ 28 mark _ _ 28 digest digest VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 26 xcomp _ _ 29 food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obj _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=22:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: pos - teacher: changed polarity=pos | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | Most microbes | | | | | harmless *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **be** | | Most microbes *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **make** | present | Microbes *= microbe* | yoghurt and cheese | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset yoghurt=Product | | 4 | **live** | present | Microbes *= microbe* *not said here* | | | your gut | | | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in gut=Location | | 5 | **help** | gerund | Microbes *= microbe* *not said here* | | | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 6 | **digest** | to-infinitive | Microbes *= microbe* *not said here* | food | | | | | tree rules | 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:063-microbes-bacteria-and-viruses.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 ×3, R6-punct-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: [Microbes: bacteria and viruses, good a…, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/63-microbes-bacteria-and-viruses/1/) - next →: [Microbes: bacteria and viruses, good a…, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/63-microbes-bacteria-and-viruses/3/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/63-microbes-bacteria-and-viruses/)