The city as a habitat, sentence 9
Dandelion seeds float on tiny parachutes into pavement cracks, where dust and water collect, and a long taproot finds water deep down.
Who acts: Dandelion seeds, dust, long taproot · What happens: float, collect, find · To what, where: tiny parachutes, water
This is a sentence of the lesson «The city as a habitat» 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 (Dandelion seeds, dust, long taproot), 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 | Dandelion | dandelion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 seeds | compound |
| 2 | seeds | seed | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 float | nsubj |
| 3 | float | float | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 parachutes | case |
| 5 | tiny | tiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 parachutes | amod |
| 6 | parachutes | parachute | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 float | obl |
| 7 | into | into | ADP | _ | 9 cracks | case |
| 8 | pavement | pavement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 cracks | compound |
| 9 | cracks | crack | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 float | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 float | punct |
| 11 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 15 collect | advmod |
| 12 | dust | dust | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 collect | nsubj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 water | cc |
| 14 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 dust | conj |
| 15 | collect | collect | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 cracks | acl:relcl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 finds | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 finds | cc |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 taproot | det |
| 19 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 taproot | amod |
| 20 | taproot | taproot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 finds | nsubj |
| 21 | finds | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 float | conj |
| 22 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 finds | obj |
| 23 | deep | deep | ADV | _ | 24 down | advmod |
| 24 | down | down | ADV | _ | 21 finds | advmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 float | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | float | present | Dandelion seeds | tiny parachutes | into pavement cracks | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V PP.source PP.trajectory PP.destination»: agent=Theme on parachute=Source into crack=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | collect | present | dust and water | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 3 | find | present | a long taproot | water | down property | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Topic |
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:014-the-city-as-a-habitat.lesson:9.
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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×3. 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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