The rainforest from the top: emergent layer and canopy, sentence 14

Bromeliads grow on branches and catch rainwater in a cup of leaves, a tiny pond for insects, and some poison dart frogs carry their tadpoles up and drop each one into its own little pool.

Who acts: Bromeliads, dart frogs · What happens: grow, catch, carry up, drop · To what, where: branches, tadpoles, one, own little pool

This is a sentence of the lesson «The rainforest from the top: emergent layer and canopy» 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 (Bromeliads, dart frogs), 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	Bromeliads	bromeliad	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 grow	nsubj
2	grow	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	on	on	ADP	_	4 branches	case
4	branches	branch	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 grow	obl
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 rainwater	cc
6	catch	catch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 grow	conj
7	rainwater	rainwater	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 branches	conj
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 cup	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 cup	det
10	cup	cup	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 rainwater	nmod
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 leaves	case
12	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 cup	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 pond	punct
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 pond	det
15	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 pond	amod
16	pond	pond	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 rainwater	conj
17	for	for	ADP	_	18 insects	case
18	insects	insect	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 pond	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 carry	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 carry	cc
21	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	24 frogs	det
22	poison	poison	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 dart	compound
23	dart	dart	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 frogs	compound
24	frogs	frog	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 carry	nsubj
25	carry	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 grow	conj
26	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 tadpoles	nmod:poss
27	tadpoles	tadpole	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 carry	obj
28	up	up	ADV	_	25 carry	advmod
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 drop	cc
30	drop	drop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 carry	conj
31	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	32 one	det
32	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 drop	obj
33	into	into	ADP	_	37 pool	case
34	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 pool	nmod:poss
35	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 pool	amod
36	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 pool	amod
37	pool	pool	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 drop	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 grow	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	grow	present	Bromeliads		branches and rainwater in a cup of leaves and a tiny pond for insects	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on branch=Location
2	catch	present	Bromeliads not said here			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	carry up	present	some dart frogs	frogs's tadpoles		vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tadpole=Theme
4	drop	present	some dart frogs not said here	each one	pond's own little pool	vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent one=Theme into pool=Destination

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:002-the-rainforest-from-the-top.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): R5-strong ×2, 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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