Plants deeper: leaves and sunlight, how a tree is made of air, sentence 10
In the 1600s Jan van Helmont grew a willow in a pot for five years; the tree gained a lot of weight but the soil lost hardly any.
Who acts: Jan, tree, soil · What happens: grow, gain, lose · To what, where: willow, 1600s, lot, any
This is a sentence of the lesson «Plants deeper: leaves and sunlight, how a tree is made of air» 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 (Jan, tree, soil), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 1600s | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 1600s | det |
| 3 | 1600s | 1600 | NOUN | Number=Ptan NumForm=Combi NumType=Card | 7 grew | obl |
| 4 | Jan | January | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 grew | nsubj |
| 5 | van | Van | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Jan | flat |
| 6 | Helmont | Helmont | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Jan | flat |
| 7 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 willow | det |
| 9 | willow | willow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 grew | obj |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 pot | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 pot | det |
| 12 | pot | pot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 grew | obl |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 years | case |
| 14 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 years | nummod |
| 15 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 grew | obl |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 gained | punct |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 tree | det |
| 18 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 gained | nsubj |
| 19 | gained | gain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 grew | parataxis |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 lot | det |
| 21 | lot | lot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 gained | obj |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 weight | case |
| 23 | weight | weight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 lot | nmod |
| 24 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 27 lost | cc |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 soil | det |
| 26 | soil | soil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 lost | nsubj |
| 27 | lost | lose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 gained | conj |
| 28 | hardly | hardly | ADV | _ | 29 any | advmod |
| 29 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 27 lost | obj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 grew | 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 | grow | past | Jan | a willow | the 1600s | year | in a pot | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location willow=Theme | |
| 2 | gain | past | the tree | a lot of weight | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lot=Theme | ||||
| 3 | lose | past | the soil | any | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent any=Eventuality |
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:251-plants-deeper-leaves-and-sunlight-how-a-tree-is-made-of-air.lesson:10.
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. 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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