The Amazon forest floor: leafcutters, army ants, tapirs, jaguars and the giant spider, sentence 15
Agoutis open hard Brazil nut pods and bury spare seeds, and the forgotten seeds grow into new Brazil nut trees.
Who acts: Agoutis, forgotten seeds · What happens: open, bury, forget, grow · To what, where: hard Brazil nut pods, spare seeds, new Brazil nut trees
This is a sentence of the lesson «The Amazon forest floor: leafcutters, army ants, tapirs, jaguars and the giant spider» 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 (Agoutis, forgotten seeds), 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 | Agoutis | agouti | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 open | nsubj |
| 2 | open | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 pods | amod |
| 4 | Brazil | Brazil | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 pods | compound |
| 5 | nut | nut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 pods | compound |
| 6 | pods | pod | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 open | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 bury | cc |
| 8 | bury | bury | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 open | conj |
| 9 | spare | spare | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 seeds | amod |
| 10 | seeds | seed | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 bury | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 grow | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 grow | cc |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 seeds | det |
| 14 | forgotten | forget | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 seeds | amod |
| 15 | seeds | seed | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 grow | nsubj |
| 16 | grow | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 open | conj |
| 17 | into | into | ADP | _ | 21 trees | case |
| 18 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 trees | amod |
| 19 | Brazil | Brazil | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 trees | compound |
| 20 | nut | nut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 trees | compound |
| 21 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 grow | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 open | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | open | present | Agoutis | hard Brazil nut pods | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location pod=Theme | ||||
| 2 | bury | infinitive | Agoutis not said here | spare seeds | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent seed=Theme | ||||
| 3 | forget | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | grow | present | the forgotten seeds | into new Brazil nut trees result | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into tree=Result |
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:157-the-amazon-forest-floor.lesson:15.
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.
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