Plants deeper: roots and how they drink, hold and push, sentence 9
Mangroves grow in salty mud with little oxygen, so some of their roots stick up like snorkels to get air; mangrove roots protect coasts from storm waves and are nurseries for young fish.
Who acts: Mangroves, some, mangrove roots · What happens: grow, stick up, get, protect, be · To what, where: salty mud, air, coasts, nurseries
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 (Mangroves, some, mangrove roots), 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 | Mangroves | mangrove | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 grow | nsubj |
| 2 | grow | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 mud | case |
| 4 | salty | salty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 mud | amod |
| 5 | mud | mud | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 grow | obl |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 oxygen | case |
| 7 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 oxygen | amod |
| 8 | oxygen | oxygen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 mud | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 stick | punct |
| 10 | so | so | ADV | _ | 15 stick | advmod |
| 11 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 15 stick | nsubj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 roots | case |
| 13 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 roots | nmod:poss |
| 14 | roots | root | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 some | nmod |
| 15 | stick | stick | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 grow | conj |
| 16 | up | up | ADP | _ | 15 stick | compound:prt |
| 17 | like | like | ADP | _ | 18 snorkels | case |
| 18 | snorkels | snorkel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 stick | obl |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 get | mark |
| 20 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 stick | advcl |
| 21 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 get | obj |
| 22 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 protect | punct |
| 23 | mangrove | mangrove | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 roots | compound |
| 24 | roots | root | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 protect | nsubj |
| 25 | protect | protect | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 stick | parataxis |
| 26 | coasts | coast | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 protect | obj |
| 27 | from | from | ADP | _ | 29 waves | case |
| 28 | storm | storm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 waves | compound |
| 29 | waves | wave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 protect | obl |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 nurseries | cc |
| 31 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 32 nurseries | cop |
| 32 | nurseries | nursery | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 protect | conj |
| 33 | for | for | ADP | _ | 35 fish | case |
| 34 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 fish | amod |
| 35 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 nurseries | nmod |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 grow | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | present | Mangroves | salty mud with little oxygen | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in mud=Location | ||||
| 2 | stick up | present | some | like snorkels | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | get | to-infinitive | some not said here | air | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer air=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | protect | present | mangrove roots | coasts | from storm waves | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent coast=Beneficiary from wave=Theme | |||
| 5 | is a | present | mangrove roots not said here | nurseries | for young fish | 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:9.
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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