Plants deeper: do trees talk? Fungi, warning smells and giant clones, sentence 17
Some old tree stumps stay alive for years because their roots are joined to nearby trees, which keep them fed with sugar.
Who acts: old tree stumps, nearby trees, roots · What happens: stay, join, keep, feed · To what, where: roots
This is a sentence of the lesson «Plants deeper: do trees talk? Fungi, warning smells and giant clones» 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 (old tree stumps, nearby trees, roots), 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 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 4 stumps | det |
| 2 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 stumps | amod |
| 3 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 stumps | compound |
| 4 | stumps | stump | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 stay | nsubj |
| 5 | stay | stay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | alive | alive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 stay | xcomp |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 years | case |
| 8 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 stay | obl |
| 9 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 13 joined | mark |
| 10 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 roots | nmod:poss |
| 11 | roots | root | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 joined | nsubj |
| 12 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 joined | aux:pass |
| 13 | joined | join | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 stay | advcl |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 trees | case |
| 15 | nearby | nearby | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 trees | amod |
| 16 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 joined | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 keep | punct |
| 18 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 keep | nsubj |
| 19 | keep | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 trees | acl:relcl |
| 20 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 keep | obj |
| 21 | fed | feed | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 keep | xcomp |
| 22 | with | with | ADP | _ | 23 sugar | case |
| 23 | sugar | sugar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 fed | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 stay | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stay | present | some old tree stumps | year | alive property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | join | present · passive | stumps's roots | to nearby trees | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: subject=Patient to tree=Co-Patient | ||||
| 3 | keep | present | nearby trees | roots = root | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | feed | participle | roots = root not said here | with sugar | vn gorge-39.6 «NP V PP.patient»: 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:252-plants-deeper-do-trees-talk-fungi-warning-smells-and-giant-clones.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): 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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