--- title: Every living thing is made of cells; under a microscope, cheek cells… — Cells, bones and muscles · tree and pragmatics description: Every living thing is made of cells; under a microscope, cheek cells look like flat shapes with a dark dot in the middle, the nucleus, which holds the cell's instructions. Who acts: cheek cells, nucleus, cell. 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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 (cheek cells, nucleus, cell), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:064-cells-bones-and-muscles.lesson:5 # text = Every living thing is made of cells; under a microscope, cheek cells look like flat shapes with a dark dot in the middle, the nucleus, which holds the cell's instructions. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 064-cells-bones-and-muscles.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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Every every DET DT PronType=Tot 3 det _ _ 2 living living NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 thing thing NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj:pass _ _ 4 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 aux:pass _ _ 5 made make VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 6 of of ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 cells cell NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obl _ _ 8 ; ; PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 9 under under ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 microscope microscope NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 13 cheek cheek NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 compound _ _ 14 cells cell NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 nsubj _ _ 15 look look VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj 16 like like ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 flat flat ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 shapes shape NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 obl _ _ 19 with with ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 20 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 21 dark dark ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 dot dot NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ _ 23 in in ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 middle middle NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=15:obl 26 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 nucleus nucleus NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 appos _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=25:appos 29 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 30 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 31 nsubj _ _ 31 holds hold VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 acl:relcl _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 cell cell NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 nmod:poss _ _ 34 's 's PART POS _ 33 case _ _ 35 instructions instruction NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 obj _ _ 36 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **make** | present · passive | | every living thing | | | | of cells | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product | | 2 | **look** | present | cheek cells | | | | | like flat shapes; with a dark dot in the middle; under a microscope | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent under microscope=Theme | | 3 | **hold** | present | the nucleus | the cell's instructions | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent instruction=Theme | | 4 | **instruct** | | the cell | | | | | | nom instruction «communication transitive»: poss=agent | 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:064-cells-bones-and-muscles.lesson:5`. **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 ×2, 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/). - ← previous: [Cells, bones and muscles, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/64-cells-bones-and-muscles/4/) - next →: [Cells, bones and muscles, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/64-cells-bones-and-muscles/6/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/64-cells-bones-and-muscles/)