Plants deeper: leaves and sunlight, how a tree is made of air, sentence 16
The sensitive plant, mimosa, folds its leaflets within seconds when touched, by moving water out of cells at the base of each leaf.
Who acts: sensitive plant · What happens: fold, touch, move · To what, where: leaflets, water, cells
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 (sensitive plant), 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 | 3 plant | det |
| 2 | sensitive | sensitive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 plant | amod |
| 3 | plant | plant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 folds | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 mimosa | punct |
| 5 | mimosa | mimosa | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 plant | appos |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 plant | punct |
| 7 | folds | fold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 leaflets | nmod:poss |
| 9 | leaflets | leaflet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 folds | obj |
| 10 | within | within | ADP | _ | 11 seconds | case |
| 11 | seconds | second | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 folds | obl |
| 12 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 13 touched | advmod |
| 13 | touched | touch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 folds | advcl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 moving | punct |
| 15 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 16 moving | mark |
| 16 | moving | move | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 touched | advcl |
| 17 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 moving | obj |
| 18 | out | out | ADP | _ | 20 cells | case |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 cells | case |
| 20 | cells | cell | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 moving | obl |
| 21 | at | at | ADP | _ | 23 base | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 base | det |
| 23 | base | base | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 cells | nmod |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 leaf | case |
| 25 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 26 leaf | det |
| 26 | leaf | leaf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 base | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 folds | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fold | present | the sensitive plant | mimosa's leaflets | second | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent leaflet=Patient | |||
| 2 | touch | participle | the sensitive plant not said here | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | move | gerund | the sensitive plant not said here | water | cells at the base of each leaf | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent water=Theme out cell=Trajectory |
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:16.
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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