Plants deeper: roots and how they drink, hold and push, sentence 4
Not everything under the ground is a root, though: a potato is a swollen stem, and its eyes are buds.
Who acts: everything, potato, eyes · What happens: be · To what, where: root, swollen stem, buds
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 (everything, potato, eyes), 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 | Not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 2 everything | advmod |
| 2 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 8 root | nsubj |
| 3 | under | under | ADP | _ | 5 ground | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 ground | det |
| 5 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 everything | nmod |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 root | cop |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 root | det |
| 8 | root | root | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 root | punct |
| 10 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 13 potato | case |
| 11 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 10 though | punct |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 potato | det |
| 13 | potato | potato | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 stem | nsubj |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 stem | cop |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 stem | det |
| 16 | swollen | swell | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 stem | amod |
| 17 | stem | stem | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 root | parataxis |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 buds | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 buds | cc |
| 20 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 21 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 buds | nsubj |
| 22 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 buds | cop |
| 23 | buds | bud | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 stem | conj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 root | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | everything | a root | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | a potato | a swollen stem and buds | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is a | present | root's eyes | buds | tree rules |
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:4.
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): R6-punct-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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