Plants deeper: leaves and sunlight, how a tree is made of air, sentence 5
Here is the surprise: a huge oak does not eat soil to grow.
Who acts: surprise, huge oak · What happens: be, not eat, grow · To what, where: soil
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 (surprise, huge oak), 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 | Here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | root | root |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Here | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 surprise | det |
| 4 | surprise | surprise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Here | nsubj |
| 5 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 11 eat | punct |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 oak | det |
| 7 | huge | huge | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 oak | amod |
| 8 | oak | oak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 eat | nsubj |
| 9 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 eat | aux |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 eat | advmod |
| 11 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 surprise | parataxis |
| 12 | soil | soil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 eat | obj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 grow | mark |
| 14 | grow | grow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 eat | advcl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Here | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the surprise | here property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not eat | present · do-support | a huge oak | soil | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent soil=Patient | ||||
| 3 | grow | to-infinitive | a huge oak not said here | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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:5.
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): no change. 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.
See the release 0.4.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/251-plants-deeper-leaves-and-sunlight-how-a-tree-is-made-of-air/5/