Deserts of the world: fennec foxes, fog-drinking beetles, camels and silver ants, sentence 3

Desert plants save water too: a cactus stores it in a fat stem and swells after rain, like a sponge you fill and then squeeze slowly for months.

Who acts: Desert plants, cactus, you · What happens: save, store, swell, fill, squeeze · To what, where: water, fat stem, sponge

This is a sentence of the lesson «Deserts of the world: fennec foxes, fog-drinking beetles, camels and silver ants» 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 (Desert plants, cactus, you), 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	Desert	desert	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 plants	compound
2	plants	plant	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 save	nsubj
3	save	save	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 save	obj
5	too	too	ADV	_	3 save	advmod
6	:	:	PUNCT	_	9 stores	punct
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 cactus	det
8	cactus	cactus	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 stores	nsubj
9	stores	store	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 save	parataxis
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 stores	obj
11	in	in	ADP	_	14 stem	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 stem	det
13	fat	fat	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 stem	compound
14	stem	stem	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 stores	obl
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 swells	cc
16	swells	swell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 stores	conj
17	after	after	ADP	_	18 rain	case
18	rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 swells	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 sponge	punct
20	like	like	ADP	_	22 sponge	case
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 sponge	det
22	sponge	sponge	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 swells	obl
23	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	24 fill	nsubj
24	fill	fill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 sponge	acl:relcl
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 squeeze	cc
26	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	27 squeeze	advmod
27	squeeze	squeeze	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 fill	conj
28	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	27 squeeze	advmod
29	for	for	ADP	_	30 months	case
30	months	month	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 squeeze	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 save	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	save	present	Desert plants	water				vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Theme
2	store	present	a cactus	water	a fat stem			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent it=Theme in stem=Location
3	swell	present	a cactus not said here			after rain	like a sponge	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
4	fill	present	you	a sponge not said here				vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent sponge=Patient
5	squeeze	present	you not said here			then; month	slowly property	vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent

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:182-deserts-of-the-world-fennec-foxes-fog-drinking-beetles-camels-and-silver-ants.lesson:3.

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, 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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