The Arctic tundra: musk oxen, arctic foxes, snowy owls and the truth about lemmings, sentence 12

Arctic plants grow low and close together out of the wind, and some arctic flowers turn to follow the sun like little dishes that warm visiting insects.

Who acts: Arctic plants, arctic flowers, little dishes · What happens: grow, close, turn, follow, warm, visiting · To what, where: wind, sun, visiting insects

This is a sentence of the lesson «The Arctic tundra: musk oxen, arctic foxes, snowy owls and the truth about lemmings» 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 (Arctic plants, arctic flowers, little dishes), 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	Arctic	arctic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 plants	amod
2	plants	plant	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 grow	nsubj
3	grow	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	low	low	ADV	Degree=Pos	3 grow	advmod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 close	cc
6	close	close	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 low	conj
7	together	together	ADV	_	6 close	advmod
8	out	out	ADP	_	11 wind	case
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 wind	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 wind	det
11	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 close	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 turn	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 turn	cc
14	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	16 flowers	det
15	arctic	arctic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 flowers	amod
16	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 turn	nsubj
17	turn	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 grow	conj
18	to	to	PART	_	19 follow	mark
19	follow	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 turn	xcomp
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 sun	det
21	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 follow	obj
22	like	like	ADP	_	24 dishes	case
23	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 dishes	amod
24	dishes	dish	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 follow	obl
25	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 warm	nsubj
26	warm	warm	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 dishes	acl:relcl
27	visiting	visiting	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	28 insects	amod
28	insects	insect	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 warm	obj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 grow	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	grow	present	Arctic plants			low property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	close	infinitive	Arctic plants not said here		the wind	together property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	turn	present	some arctic flowers				tree rules
4	follow	to-infinitive	some arctic flowers not said here	the sun		like little dishes	vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sun=Theme
5	warm	present	little dishes	visiting insects			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent insect=Patient
6	visiting	gerund					tree rules

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:168-the-arctic-tundra-musk-oxen-arctic-foxes-and-the-truth-about-lemmings.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. 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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