The rainforest from the top: emergent layer and canopy, sentence 9
Green algae grow in a sloth's fur and help to hide it among the leaves.
Who acts: Green algae · What happens: grow, help, hide · To what, where: fur, sloth, leaves
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 (Green algae), 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 | Green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 algae | amod |
| 2 | algae | alga | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 grow | nsubj |
| 3 | grow | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 fur | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 sloth | det |
| 6 | sloth | sloth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 fur | nmod:poss |
| 7 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 6 sloth | case |
| 8 | fur | fur | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 grow | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 help | cc |
| 10 | help | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 grow | conj |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 hide | mark |
| 12 | hide | hide | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 help | xcomp |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 hide | obj |
| 14 | among | among | ADP | _ | 16 leaves | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 leaves | det |
| 16 | leaves | leaf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 hide | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 grow | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | present | Green algae | a sloth's fur | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in fur=Location | ||||
| 2 | help | present | Green algae not said here | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | hide | to-infinitive | Green algae not said here | sloth | the leaves | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent it=Patient among leaf=Location |
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:9.
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): no change. 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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