Plants deeper: leaves and sunlight, how a tree is made of air, sentence 17

In one experiment, mimosa plants dropped again and again without harm stopped folding and still «remembered» weeks later; scientists still argue about whether to call this learning.

Who acts: mimosa plants, scientists, learning · What happens: drop, stop, remember, argue, call · To what, where: one experiment, folding · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (mimosa plants, scientists, learning), 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 experiment	case
2	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 experiment	nummod
3	experiment	experiment	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 dropped	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 experiment	punct
5	mimosa	mimosa	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 plants	compound
6	plants	plant	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 dropped	nsubj
7	dropped	drop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	again	again	ADV	_	7 dropped	advmod
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 again	cc
10	again	again	ADV	_	8 again	conj
11	without	without	ADP	_	12 harm	case
12	harm	harm	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 stopped	obl
13	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 dropped	advcl
14	folding	folding	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 stopped	obj
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 remembered	cc
16	still	still	ADV	_	18 remembered	advmod
17	«	«	PUNCT	_	18 remembered	punct
18	remembered	remember	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 stopped	conj
19	»	»	PUNCT	_	18 remembered	punct
20	weeks	week	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 remembered	obl:unmarked
21	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	20 weeks	advmod
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 argue	punct
23	scientists	scientist	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 argue	nsubj
24	still	still	ADV	_	25 argue	advmod
25	argue	argue	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 dropped	parataxis
26	about	about	SCONJ	_	29 call	mark
27	whether	whether	SCONJ	_	29 call	mark
28	to	to	PART	_	29 call	mark
29	call	call	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 argue	advcl
30	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	31 learning	det
31	learning	learning	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 call	obj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 dropped	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drop	past	mimosa plants		one experiment	again		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme in experiment=Trajectory
2	stop	past	mimosa plants not said here	folding			without harm	vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality folding=Eventuality
3	remember in a quote	participle	mimosa plants not said here			still; week		vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent
4	argue speech: disagree	present	scientists			still		vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	call	to-infinitive	this learning					vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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:17.

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): R8-pos-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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