Forests: woodland through the year and the great northern forest, sentence 5

A tree grows one new ring of wood each year, light spring wood and darker summer wood; wide rings mean good years and thin rings mean hard dry years.

Who acts: tree, wide rings · What happens: grow, mean · To what, where: one new ring

This is a sentence of the lesson «Forests: woodland through the year and the great northern forest» 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 (tree, wide rings), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 tree	det
2	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 grows	nsubj
3	grows	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 ring	nummod
5	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 ring	amod
6	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 grows	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 wood	case
8	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 ring	nmod
9	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	10 year	det
10	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 grows	obl:unmarked
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 wood	punct
12	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 wood	compound
13	spring	spring	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 wood	compound
14	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 grows	parataxis
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 wood	cc
16	darker	dark	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	18 wood	amod
17	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 wood	compound
18	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 wood	conj
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 mean	punct
20	wide	wide	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 rings	amod
21	rings	ring	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 mean	nsubj
22	mean	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 grows	parataxis
23	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 years	amod
24	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 mean	obj
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 rings	cc
26	thin	thin	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 rings	amod
27	rings	ring	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 years	conj
28	mean	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 mean	conj
29	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 years	amod
30	dry	dry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 years	amod
31	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 mean	obj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 grows	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	grow	present	a tree	one new ring of wood	year	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location ring=Theme
2	mean	present	wide rings		year	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
3	mean	present	wide rings not said here		year	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=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, 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:012-forests-woodland-through-the-year.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 ×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.

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