Plants deeper: roots and how they drink, hold and push, sentence 15
Dandelions have deep taproots that store food, a piece of root left in the ground can grow a whole new plant, and roasted dandelion roots were used to make a drink like coffee.
Who acts: Dandelions, deep taproots, piece · What happens: have, store, leave, grow, roast, use · To what, where: deep taproots, food, piece, ground, whole new plant, roasted dandelion roots
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 (Dandelions, deep taproots, piece), 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 | Dandelions | dandelion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 have | nsubj |
| 2 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 taproots | amod |
| 4 | taproots | taproot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 have | obj |
| 5 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 store | nsubj |
| 6 | store | store | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 taproots | acl:relcl |
| 7 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 store | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 piece | punct |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 piece | det |
| 10 | piece | piece | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 grow | nsubj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 root | case |
| 12 | root | root | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 piece | nmod |
| 13 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 piece | acl |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 ground | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 ground | det |
| 16 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 left | obl |
| 17 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 grow | aux |
| 18 | grow | grow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 have | conj |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 plant | det |
| 20 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 plant | amod |
| 21 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 plant | amod |
| 22 | plant | plant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 grow | obj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 used | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 used | cc |
| 25 | roasted | roast | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 27 roots | amod |
| 26 | dandelion | dandelion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 roots | compound |
| 27 | roots | root | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 used | nsubj:pass |
| 28 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 used | aux:pass |
| 29 | used | use | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 have | conj |
| 30 | to | to | PART | _ | 31 make | mark |
| 31 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 29 used | advcl |
| 32 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 drink | det |
| 33 | drink | drink | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 make | obj |
| 34 | like | like | ADP | _ | 35 coffee | case |
| 35 | coffee | coffee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 drink | nmod |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 have | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | Dandelions | deep taproots | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent taproot=Patient | ||||
| 2 | store | present | deep taproots | food | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Theme | ||||
| 3 | leave | participle | a piece of root not said here | in the ground result | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in ground=Result | ||||
| 4 | grow | can | a piece of root | a whole new plant | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location plant=Theme | ||||
| 5 | roast | participle | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 6 | use | past · passive | roasted dandelion roots | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 7 | make | to-infinitive | a drink | like coffee | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset drink=Product |
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:15.
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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