Swamps, marshes, mangroves and bogs, sentence 6
Red mangrove seedlings start growing while still hanging on the parent tree, then drop like darts into the mud or float away; they can drift for months and still take root on a faraway shore.
Who acts: Red mangrove seedlings, seedlings · What happens: start, grow, hang, drop, float away, drift · To what, where: parent tree, mud, root, faraway shore
This is a sentence of the lesson «Swamps, marshes, mangroves and bogs» of the biology 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 (Red mangrove seedlings, seedlings), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 seedlings | amod |
| 2 | mangrove | mangrove | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 seedlings | compound |
| 3 | seedlings | seedling | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 start | nsubj |
| 4 | start | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | growing | grow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 start | xcomp |
| 6 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 8 hanging | mark |
| 7 | still | still | ADV | _ | 8 hanging | advmod |
| 8 | hanging | hang | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 growing | xcomp |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 tree | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 tree | det |
| 11 | parent | parent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 tree | compound |
| 12 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 hanging | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 drop | punct |
| 14 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 15 drop | advmod |
| 15 | drop | drop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 start | xcomp |
| 16 | like | like | ADP | _ | 17 darts | case |
| 17 | darts | dart | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 drop | obl |
| 18 | into | into | ADP | _ | 20 mud | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 mud | det |
| 20 | mud | mud | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 drop | obl |
| 21 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 22 float | cc |
| 22 | float | float | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 drop | conj |
| 23 | away | away | ADV | _ | 22 float | advmod |
| 24 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 27 drift | punct |
| 25 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 drift | nsubj |
| 26 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 27 drift | aux |
| 27 | drift | drift | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 start | parataxis |
| 28 | for | for | ADP | _ | 29 months | case |
| 29 | months | month | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 drift | obl |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 take | cc |
| 31 | still | still | ADV | _ | 32 take | advmod |
| 32 | take | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 drift | conj |
| 33 | root | root | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 take | obj |
| 34 | on | on | ADP | _ | 37 shore | case |
| 35 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 37 shore | det |
| 36 | faraway | faraway | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 shore | amod |
| 37 | shore | shore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 take | obl |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 start | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | start | present | Red mangrove seedlings | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | grow | gerund | Red mangrove seedlings not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | hang | gerund | Red mangrove seedlings not said here | the parent tree | still | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on tree=Location | |||
| 4 | drop | infinitive | Red mangrove seedlings not said here | the mud | then | like darts | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into mud=Trajectory | ||
| 5 | float away | infinitive | Red mangrove seedlings not said here | away property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 6 | drift | can | seedlings = seedling | month | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 7 | take | present | seedlings = seedling not said here | root | a faraway shore | still | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent root=Theme on shore=Destination |
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, 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:011-swamps-marshes-mangroves-and-bogs.lesson:6.
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. 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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/11-swamps-marshes-mangroves-and-bogs/6/