Plants deeper: roots and how they drink, hold and push, sentence 7
A carrot is a swollen root that stores food so the plant can flower in its second year, so gardeners pick it in the first year; wild carrots are white and thin, and orange carrots were bred by farmers, many in the Netherlands.
Who acts: carrot, swollen root, plant, gardeners, wild carrots, farmers · What happens: be, store, flower, pick, breed · To what, where: swollen root, food, plant, orange carrots
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 (carrot, swollen root, plant, gardeners), 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 carrot | det |
| 2 | carrot | carrot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 root | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 root | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 root | det |
| 5 | swollen | swollen | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 root | amod |
| 6 | root | root | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 stores | nsubj |
| 8 | stores | store | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 root | acl:relcl |
| 9 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 stores | obj |
| 10 | so | so | SCONJ | _ | 14 flower | mark |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 plant | det |
| 12 | plant | plant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 flower | nsubj |
| 13 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 flower | aux |
| 14 | flower | flower | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 stores | advcl |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 year | case |
| 16 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 year | nmod:poss |
| 17 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 18 year | amod |
| 18 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 flower | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 pick | punct |
| 20 | so | so | ADV | _ | 22 pick | advmod |
| 21 | gardeners | gardener | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 pick | nsubj |
| 22 | pick | pick | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 root | conj |
| 23 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 pick | obj |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 year | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 year | det |
| 26 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 27 year | amod |
| 27 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 pick | obl |
| 28 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 32 white | punct |
| 29 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 carrots | amod |
| 30 | carrots | carrot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 white | nsubj |
| 31 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 32 white | cop |
| 32 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 root | parataxis |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 thin | cc |
| 34 | thin | thin | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 white | conj |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 bred | punct |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 bred | cc |
| 37 | orange | orange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 carrots | amod |
| 38 | carrots | carrot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 40 bred | nsubj |
| 39 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 40 bred | aux:pass |
| 40 | bred | breed | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 32 white | conj |
| 41 | by | by | ADP | _ | 42 farmers | case |
| 42 | farmers | farmer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 40 bred | obl |
| 43 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 bred | punct |
| 44 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 42 farmers | appos |
| 45 | in | in | ADP | _ | 47 Netherlands | case |
| 46 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 47 Netherlands | det |
| 47 | Netherlands | Netherlands | PROPN | Number=Sing | 44 many | nmod |
| 48 | . | . | 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 | is a | present | a carrot | a swollen root | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | store | present | a swollen root | food | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Theme | ||||
| 3 | flower | can | the plant | year | vn entity_specific_modes_being-47.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | pick | present | gardeners | plant | year | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | |||
| 5 | is | present | wild carrots | white property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | be | wild carrots not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 7 | breed | past · passive | farmers | orange carrots | 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:7.
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): R7-rel-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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