Plants deeper: leaves and sunlight, how a tree is made of air, sentence 14

The Amazon giant water lily has leaves up to about three metres across, held up by stiff ribs underneath, strong enough to hold a small child spread on a board.

Who acts: Amazon giant water lily · What happens: have, leaf, hold up, hold, spread · To what, where: small child, board

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 (Amazon giant water lily), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 lily	det
2	Amazon	Amazon	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 lily	compound
3	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 lily	amod
4	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 lily	compound
5	lily	lily	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 leaves	nsubj
6	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 has	obj
8	up	up	ADV	_	12 metres	advmod
9	to	to	ADP	_	12 metres	case
10	about	about	ADV	_	11 three	advmod
11	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 metres	nummod
12	metres	metre	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 across	obl
13	across	across	ADV	_	7 leaves	advmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 held	punct
15	held	hold	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 leaves	advcl
16	up	up	ADP	_	15 held	compound:prt
17	by	by	ADP	_	19 ribs	case
18	stiff	stiff	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 ribs	amod
19	ribs	rib	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 held	obl
20	underneath	underneath	ADV	_	19 ribs	advmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 ribs	punct
22	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 ribs	amod
23	enough	enough	ADV	_	22 strong	advmod
24	to	to	PART	_	25 hold	mark
25	hold	hold	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 strong	advcl
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 child	det
27	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 child	amod
28	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 hold	obj
29	spread	spread	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	28 child	acl
30	on	on	ADP	_	32 board	case
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 board	det
32	board	board	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 spread	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 leaves	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	present					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	leaf		the Amazon giant water lily			across property	tree rules
3	hold up	participle	the Amazon giant water lily not said here			by stiff ribs	vn support-15.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot
4	hold	to-infinitive	the Amazon giant water lily not said here	a small child			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Theme
5	spread	participle		a small child not said here	a board		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on board=Location

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:14.

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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2. 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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