Bees and wasps in the garden, sentence 16

Honey hardly ever goes off, because it is so sugary and dry that germs cannot grow in it.

Who acts: Honey, drink, germs · What happens: go off, be, not grow · To what, where: drink

This is a sentence of the lesson «Bees and wasps in the garden» 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 (Honey, drink, germs), 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	Honey	honey	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 goes	nsubj
2	hardly	hardly	ADV	_	4 goes	advmod
3	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	4 goes	advmod
4	goes	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	off	off	ADP	_	4 goes	compound:prt
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 sugary	punct
7	because	because	SCONJ	_	11 sugary	mark
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 sugary	nsubj
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 sugary	cop
10	so	so	ADV	_	11 sugary	advmod
11	sugary	sugary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 goes	advcl
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 dry	cc
13	dry	dry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 sugary	conj
14	that	that	SCONJ	_	18 grow	mark
15	germs	germ	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 grow	nsubj
16	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 grow	aux
17	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	18 grow	advmod
18	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 sugary	advcl
19	in	in	ADP	_	20 it	case
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 grow	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 goes	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed polarity=none

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	go off	present	Honey		ever	hardly property	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme
2	is	present	drink			sugary property	tree rules
3	be		drink not said here				tree rules
4	not grow	can	germs	drink			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in it=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:218-bees-and-wasps-in-the-garden.lesson:16.

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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