Mountains: life as you climb higher, sentence 12
Edelweiss is covered in thick woolly white hairs that protect it from strong sunlight, cold and drying wind, and it is protected, so it must not be picked in many places.
Who acts: thick woolly white hairs · What happens: cover, protect, dry, not pick · To what, where: Edelweiss, condor, many places
This is a sentence of the lesson «Mountains: life as you climb higher» 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 (thick woolly white hairs), 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 | Edelweiss | edelweiss | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 covered | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 covered | aux:pass |
| 3 | covered | cover | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 hairs | case |
| 5 | thick | thick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 hairs | amod |
| 6 | woolly | woolly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 hairs | amod |
| 7 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 hairs | amod |
| 8 | hairs | hair | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 covered | obl |
| 9 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 protect | nsubj |
| 10 | protect | protect | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 hairs | acl:relcl |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 protect | obj |
| 12 | from | from | ADP | _ | 14 sunlight | case |
| 13 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 sunlight | amod |
| 14 | sunlight | sunlight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 protect | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 cold | punct |
| 16 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 sunlight | amod |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 drying | cc |
| 18 | drying | dry | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 cold | conj |
| 19 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 sunlight | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 protected | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 protected | cc |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 protected | nsubj:pass |
| 23 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 protected | aux:pass |
| 24 | protected | protect | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 covered | conj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 picked | punct |
| 26 | so | so | ADV | _ | 31 picked | advmod |
| 27 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 picked | nsubj:pass |
| 28 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 31 picked | aux |
| 29 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 31 picked | advmod |
| 30 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 31 picked | aux:pass |
| 31 | picked | pick | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 covered | conj |
| 32 | in | in | ADP | _ | 34 places | case |
| 33 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 places | amod |
| 34 | places | place | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 picked | obl |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 covered | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- neg
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cover | present · passive | Edelweiss | in thick woolly white hairs | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination in hair=Theme | ||||
| 2 | protect | present | thick woolly white hairs | condor | from strong sunlight and wind | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Beneficiary from sunlight=Theme | |||
| 3 | dry | gerund | thick woolly white hairs not said here | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 4 | protect | present · passive | condor | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Beneficiary | |||||
| 5 | not pick | must · passive | condor | many places | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
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:013-mountains-life-as-you-climb.lesson:12.
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, 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.
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