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title: Bacteria are living things made of just one tiny cell, far too small… — Fungi, bacteria and tiny living things · tree and pragmatics
description: Bacteria are living things made of just one tiny cell, far too small to see without a microscope; they live everywhere — in soil, water, air and inside our bodies. Who acts: Bacteria. A sentence of the lesson «Fungi, bacteria and tiny living things» of the world course of Mova's primary school with 
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# Fungi, bacteria and tiny living things, sentence 2

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Bacteria are living things made of just one tiny cell, far too small to see without a microscope; they live everywhere — in soil, water, air and inside our bodies.

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**Who acts:** Bacteria · **What happens:** live, be, make, see · **To what, where:** living things, soil

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Fungi, bacteria and tiny living things» of the world 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 (Bacteria), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:world:077-fungi-bacteria-tiny-living-things.lesson:2
# text = Bacteria are living things made of just one tiny cell, far too small to see without a microscope; they live everywhere — in soil, water, air and inside our bodies.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = world
# lesson = 077-fungi-bacteria-tiny-living-things.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
1	Bacteria	bacterium	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	living	live	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	amod	_	_
4	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
5	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	acl	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
7	just	just	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	_
9	tiny	tiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	cell	cell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	14	advmod	_	_
13	too	too	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:xcomp
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	advcl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=14:csubj
17	without	without	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	microscope	microscope	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
20	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	live	live	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
23	everywhere	everywhere	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	22	advmod	_	_
24	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	26	punct	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	soil	soil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
28	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	conj	_	_
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
30	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	conj	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
32	inside	inside	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	34	nmod:poss	_	_
34	bodies	body	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	conj	_	_
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is a** | present | Bacteria | living things |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **make** | participle |  | living things *not said here* |  |  |  | of one tiny cell | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
| 4 | **see** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | without a microscope | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 5 | **live** | present | Bacteria *= bacterium* |  |  | soil and water and air and our bodies |  | everywhere *property* | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in soil=Location |

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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 ×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/).

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