Plants deeper: roots and how they drink, hold and push, sentence 14
A potato is not a root but a swollen underground stem called a tuber, its eyes are buds that grow new shoots, and green parts of a potato are poisonous and should not be eaten.
Who acts: potato, eyes, buds, green parts · What happens: not be, call, be, grow, not eat · To what, where: root, tuber, buds, new shoots · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Plants deeper: roots and how they drink, hold and push» 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 (potato, eyes, buds, green parts), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 potato | det |
| 2 | potato | potato | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 root | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 root | cop |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 root | advmod |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 root | det |
| 6 | root | root | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 called | cc |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 stem | det |
| 9 | swollen | swollen | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 stem | amod |
| 10 | underground | underground | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 stem | amod |
| 11 | stem | stem | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 root | conj |
| 12 | called | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 root | conj |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 tuber | det |
| 14 | tuber | tuber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 called | xcomp |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 buds | punct |
| 16 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 17 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 buds | nsubj |
| 18 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 buds | cop |
| 19 | buds | bud | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 root | parataxis |
| 20 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 grow | nsubj |
| 21 | grow | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 buds | acl:relcl |
| 22 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 shoots | amod |
| 23 | shoots | shoot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 grow | obj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 poisonous | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 poisonous | cc |
| 26 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 parts | amod |
| 27 | parts | part | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 poisonous | nsubj |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 potato | case |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 potato | det |
| 30 | potato | potato | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 parts | nmod |
| 31 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 32 poisonous | cop |
| 32 | poisonous | poisonous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 root | parataxis |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 eaten | cc |
| 34 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 37 eaten | aux |
| 35 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 37 eaten | advmod |
| 36 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 37 eaten | aux:pass |
| 37 | eaten | eat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 32 poisonous | conj |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 root | 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 | not is a | present | a potato | a root and a swollen underground stem | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | call | past | a potato not said here | a tuber | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | is a | present | root's eyes | buds | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | grow | present | buds | new shoots | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location shoot=Theme | ||||
| 5 | is | present | green parts of a potato | poisonous property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | not eat | should · passive | green parts of a potato not said here | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V» |
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:250-plants-deeper-roots-and-how-they-drink-hold-and-push.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 ×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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