Madagascar: chameleons, leaf-tailed geckos, tenrecs, baobabs and a moth Darwin predicted, sentence 14
The Madagascar periwinkle contains chemicals used to make medicines for some childhood cancers, which shows why losing rare plants may mean losing future medicines.
Who acts: Madagascar periwinkle, losing · What happens: contain, use, make, show, lose, mean · To what, where: chemicals, medicines, rare plants, future medicines · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Madagascar: chameleons, leaf-tailed geckos, tenrecs, baobabs and a moth Darwin predicted» 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 (Madagascar periwinkle, losing), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 periwinkle | det |
| 2 | Madagascar | Madagascar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 periwinkle | compound |
| 3 | periwinkle | periwinkle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 contains | nsubj |
| 4 | contains | contain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | chemicals | chemical | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 contains | obj |
| 6 | used | use | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 chemicals | acl |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 make | mark |
| 8 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 used | xcomp |
| 9 | medicines | medicine | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 make | obj |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 cancers | case |
| 11 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 13 cancers | det |
| 12 | childhood | childhood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 cancers | compound |
| 13 | cancers | cancer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 make | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 shows | punct |
| 15 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 shows | nsubj |
| 16 | shows | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 contains | parataxis |
| 17 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 22 mean | advmod |
| 18 | losing | lose | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 22 mean | csubj |
| 19 | rare | rare | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 plants | amod |
| 20 | plants | plant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 losing | obj |
| 21 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 mean | aux |
| 22 | mean | mean | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 shows | ccomp |
| 23 | losing | lose | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 22 mean | xcomp |
| 24 | future | future | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 medicines | amod |
| 25 | medicines | medicine | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 losing | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 contains | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | contain | present | the Madagascar periwinkle | chemicals | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot chemical=Theme | ||||
| 2 | use | participle | chemicals not said here | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | make | to-infinitive | medicines | for some childhood cancers | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: agent=Agent medicine=Product for cancer=Asset | ||||
| 4 | show | present | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 5 | lose | gerund | rare plants | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plant=Eventuality | |||||
| 6 | mean | may | losing | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 7 | lose not said to happen | gerund | losing not said here | future medicines | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent medicine=Eventuality |
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:164-madagascar-chameleons-geckos-tenrecs-baobabs-and-darwins-moth.lesson:14.
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): R7-rel-agree ×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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