Plants deeper: leaves and sunlight, how a tree is made of air, sentence 7
Put a pondweed leaf in a glass of water on a sunny windowsill and watch: tiny bubbles of oxygen rise from it, the factory working in front of your eyes.
Who acts: you, tiny bubbles, factory · What happens: put, watch, rise, work · To what, where: pondweed leaf, glass, water
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 (you, tiny bubbles, factory), 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 | Put | put | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 leaf | det |
| 3 | pondweed | pondweed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 leaf | compound |
| 4 | leaf | leaf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Put | obj |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 glass | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 glass | det |
| 7 | glass | glass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Put | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 water | case |
| 9 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 glass | nmod |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 windowsill | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 windowsill | det |
| 12 | sunny | sunny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 windowsill | amod |
| 13 | windowsill | windowsill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Put | obl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 watch | cc |
| 15 | watch | watch | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Put | conj |
| 16 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 18 bubbles | punct |
| 17 | tiny | tiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 bubbles | amod |
| 18 | bubbles | bubble | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 rise | nsubj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 rise | case |
| 20 | oxygen | oxygen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 bubbles | nmod |
| 21 | rise | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 watch | ccomp |
| 22 | from | from | ADP | _ | 23 it | case |
| 23 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 rise | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 factory | punct |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 factory | det |
| 26 | factory | factory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 bubbles | conj |
| 27 | working | work | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 26 factory | acl |
| 28 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 front | case |
| 29 | front | front | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 working | obl |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 eyes | case |
| 31 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 32 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 front | nmod |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Put | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- command
- act
- request
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put | imperative | you not said here | a pondweed leaf | a glass of water | on a sunny windowsill | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent leaf=Theme on windowsill=Destination | ||
| 2 | watch | infinitive | you not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | rise | present | tiny bubbles oxygen and the factory | water | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from it=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | work | gerund | the factory not said here | in front of your eyes | vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in front=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:7.
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 ×3, R7-rel-agree ×1, 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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