--- title: Antonie van Leeuwenhoek made tiny powerful lenses and was the first… — The age of science · tree and pragmatics description: Antonie van Leeuwenhoek made tiny powerful lenses and was the first to see living microbes in a drop of water, in the 1670s. Who acts: Antonie. A sentence of the lesson «The age of science» of the history course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/29-the-age-of-science/10/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [History](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/) / [The age of science](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/29-the-age-of-science/) / 10 # The age of science, sentence 10 Antonie van Leeuwenhoek made tiny powerful lenses and was the first to see living microbes in a drop of water, in the 1670s. **Who acts:** Antonie · **What happens:** make, be, see, live · **To what, where:** tiny powerful lenses, living microbes, drop This is a sentence of the lesson «The age of science» of the history 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 (Antonie), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:history:029-the-age-of-science.lesson:10 # text = Antonie van Leeuwenhoek made tiny powerful lenses and was the first to see living microbes in a drop of water, in the 1670s. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = history # lesson = 029-the-age-of-science.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 ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Antonie Antonie PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 2 van Van PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 flat _ _ 3 Leeuwenhoek Leeuwenhoek PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 flat _ _ 4 made make VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 tiny tiny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 6 powerful powerful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 lenses lens NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obj _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 9 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 cop _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 first first ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 4 conj _ _ 12 to to PART TO _ 13 mark _ _ 13 see see VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:acl 14 living live VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 15 amod _ _ 15 microbes microbe NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 obj _ _ 16 in in ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 drop drop NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=15:nmod 19 of of ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nmod _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 22 in in ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 1670s 1670 NOUN NNS Number=Ptan|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Card 13 obl _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=13:obl|HaikuPos=NUM:CD:NumForm=Combi|NumType=Card 25 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **make** | past | Antonie | tiny powerful lenses | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lens=Product | | 2 | **is** | past | Antonie *not said here* | | | | | first *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **see** | to-infinitive | Antonie *not said here* | living microbes | | a drop of water | | in the 1670s | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer microbe=Stimulus | | 4 | **live** | gerund | | | | | | | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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:history:029-the-age-of-science.lesson:10`. **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 ×1, R8-pos-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: [The age of science, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/29-the-age-of-science/9/) - next →: [The age of science, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/29-the-age-of-science/11/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/29-the-age-of-science/)