--- title: A drop of seawater under the school microscope wriggles with plankto… — The ocean: open sea, sunlit zone and the deep dark · tree and pragmatics description: A drop of seawater under the school microscope wriggles with plankton, tiny drifting algae and animals; they are the bottom of the ocean food chain, and the tiny algae among them make about half the oxygen we breathe. Who acts: drop, animals, tiny algae, we. 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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 (drop, animals, tiny algae, we), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:008-the-ocean.lesson:2 # text = A drop of seawater under the school microscope wriggles with plankton, tiny drifting algae and animals; they are the bottom of the ocean food chain, and the tiny algae among them make about half the oxygen we breathe. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 008-the-ocean.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): R1-cc-next ×2, R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 drop drop NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 3 of of ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 seawater seawater NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 5 under under ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:det 7 school school NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 compound _ _ 8 microscope microscope NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 compound _ _ 9 wriggles wriggle VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 10 with with ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 plankton plankton NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 13 tiny tiny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 14 drifting drift VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 15 amod _ _ 15 algae alga NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 appos _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=15:cc 17 animals animal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 conj _ _ 18 ; ; PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 19 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 20 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 cop _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 bottom bottom NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 conj _ _ 23 of of ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 25 ocean ocean NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 compound _ _ 26 food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 compound _ _ 27 chain chain NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nmod _ _ 28 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=22:cc 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 31 tiny tiny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 amod _ _ 32 algae alga NOUN NNS Number=Plur 35 nsubj _ _ 33 among among ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 34 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 nmod _ _ 35 make make VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=22:conj 36 about about ADV RB _ 37 advmod _ _ 37 half half DET PDT NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac|PronType=Ind 39 det:predet _ _ 38 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 39 oxygen oxygen NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obj _ _ 40 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 41 nsubj _ _ 41 breathe breathe VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 39 acl:relcl _ _ 42 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **wriggle** | present | a drop of seawater | | | | | with plankton | vn body\_internal\_motion-49.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **drift** | gerund | | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **is a** | present | animals *= animal* | the bottom | | | | of the ocean food chain | tree rules | | 4 | **make** | present | the tiny algae among animals | half oxygen | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset oxygen=Product | | 5 | **breathe** | present | we | half oxygen *not said here* | | | | | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent oxygen=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:008-the-ocean.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): R1-cc-next ×2, R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×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 ocean: open sea, sunlit zone and t…, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/8-the-ocean/1/) - next →: [The ocean: open sea, sunlit zone and t…, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/8-the-ocean/3/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/8-the-ocean/)