Plants deeper: do trees talk? Fungi, warning smells and giant clones, sentence 18
A grove of aspens can be one giant plant, all trunks joined by one root system with the same genes; Pando in Utah weighs about 6,000 tonnes, and the trunks of such a clone can all turn gold on the same autumn day.
Who acts: grove, Pando, trunks · What happens: be, join, weigh, turn · To what, where: one giant plant, trunks, 6,000 tonnes, gold
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 (grove, Pando, trunks), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 grove | det |
| 2 | grove | grove | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 plant | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 aspens | case |
| 4 | aspens | aspen | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 grove | nmod |
| 5 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 plant | aux |
| 6 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 9 plant | cop |
| 7 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 plant | nummod |
| 8 | giant | giant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 plant | amod |
| 9 | plant | plant | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 trunks | punct |
| 11 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 12 trunks | det |
| 12 | trunks | trunk | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 plant | appos |
| 13 | joined | join | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 trunks | acl |
| 14 | by | by | ADP | _ | 17 system | case |
| 15 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 system | nummod |
| 16 | root | root | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 system | compound |
| 17 | system | system | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 joined | obl |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 genes | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 genes | det |
| 20 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 genes | amod |
| 21 | genes | gene | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 system | nmod |
| 22 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 26 weighs | punct |
| 23 | Pando | Pando | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 weighs | nsubj |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 Utah | case |
| 25 | Utah | Utah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 Pando | nmod |
| 26 | weighs | weigh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 plant | parataxis |
| 27 | about | about | ADV | _ | 28 6,000 | advmod |
| 28 | 6,000 | 6000 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 29 tonnes | nummod |
| 29 | tonnes | tonne | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 weighs | obj |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 turn | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 turn | cc |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 trunks | det |
| 33 | trunks | trunk | NOUN | Number=Plur | 40 turn | nsubj |
| 34 | of | of | ADP | _ | 37 clone | case |
| 35 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 37 clone | det:predet |
| 36 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 37 clone | det |
| 37 | clone | clone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 trunks | nmod |
| 38 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 40 turn | aux |
| 39 | all | all | ADV | _ | 40 turn | advmod |
| 40 | turn | turn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 weighs | conj |
| 41 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 turn | obj |
| 42 | on | on | ADP | _ | 46 day | case |
| 43 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 46 day | det |
| 44 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 46 day | amod |
| 45 | autumn | autumn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 day | compound |
| 46 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 turn | obl |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 plant | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | can | a grove of aspens | one giant plant | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | join | participle | all trunks not said here | by one root system with the same genes | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | weigh | present | Pando in Utah | 6,000 tonnes | vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme tonne=Value | ||||
| 4 | turn | can | the trunks of such clone | gold | day | all property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent gold=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:252-plants-deeper-do-trees-talk-fungi-warning-smells-and-giant-clones.lesson:18.
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): R2-punct-next ×2, R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2. 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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