Mangroves: trees in salt water, mudskippers, archerfish and swimming tigers, sentence 11

Mangrove seeds sprout while still on the tree, drop as long spikes, and can float for months until they reach mud and grow roots.

Who acts: Mangrove seeds, seeds · What happens: sprout, drop, float, reach, grow · To what, where: mud, roots

This is a sentence of the lesson «Mangroves: trees in salt water, mudskippers, archerfish and swimming tigers» 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 (Mangrove seeds, 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	Mangrove	mangrove	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 seeds	compound
2	seeds	seed	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 sprout	nsubj
3	sprout	sprout	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	while	while	SCONJ	_	10 drop	mark
5	still	still	ADV	_	10 drop	advmod
6	on	on	ADP	_	10 drop	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 tree	det
8	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sprout	advcl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 drop	punct
10	drop	drop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 sprout	conj
11	as	as	ADP	_	13 spikes	case
12	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 spikes	amod
13	spikes	spike	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 drop	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 float	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 float	cc
16	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 float	aux
17	float	float	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 sprout	conj
18	for	for	ADP	_	19 months	case
19	months	month	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 float	obl
20	until	until	SCONJ	_	22 reach	mark
21	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 reach	nsubj
22	reach	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 float	advcl
23	mud	mud	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 reach	obj
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 grow	cc
25	grow	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 reach	conj
26	roots	root	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 grow	obj
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 sprout	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	sprout	present	Mangrove seeds				vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Source
2	drop	present	Mangrove seeds not said here		still	as long spikes	vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent as spike=Attribute
3	float	can	Mangrove seeds not said here		month		vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	reach	present	seeds = seed	mud			vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent mud=Theme
5	grow	present	seeds = seed not said here	roots			vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location root=Theme

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:178-mangroves-trees-in-salt-water-mudskippers-archerfish-and-swimming-tigers.lesson:11.

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): R1-cc-next ×2, R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-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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