Plants deeper: the oldest, tallest and strangest trees, sentence 11

Baobabs store thousands of litres of water in their huge spongy trunks and drop their leaves in the dry season; some hollow baobabs have been used as a shop, a prison and even a pub.

Who acts: Baobabs · What happens: store, drop, use · To what, where: thousands, huge spongy trunks, leaves, hollow baobabs

This is a sentence of the lesson «Plants deeper: the oldest, tallest and strangest trees» 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 (Baobabs), 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	Baobabs	baobab	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 store	nsubj
2	store	store	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	thousands	thousand	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 store	obj
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 litres	case
5	litres	litre	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 thousands	nmod
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 water	case
7	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 litres	nmod
8	in	in	ADP	_	12 trunks	case
9	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 trunks	nmod:poss
10	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 trunks	amod
11	spongy	spongy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 trunks	amod
12	trunks	trunk	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 store	obl
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 drop	cc
14	drop	drop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 store	conj
15	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 leaves	nmod:poss
16	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 drop	obj
17	in	in	ADP	_	20 season	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 season	det
19	dry	dry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 season	amod
20	season	season	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 drop	obl
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 used	punct
22	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	24 baobabs	det
23	hollow	hollow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 baobabs	amod
24	baobabs	baobab	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 used	nsubj:pass
25	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 used	aux
26	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	27 used	aux:pass
27	used	use	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 store	parataxis
28	as	as	ADP	_	30 shop	case
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 shop	det
30	shop	shop	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 used	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 prison	punct
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 prison	det
33	prison	prison	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 shop	conj
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 pub	cc
35	even	even	ADV	_	37 pub	advmod
36	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 pub	det
37	pub	pub	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 shop	conj
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 store	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	store	present	Baobabs	thousands of litres of water	litres's huge spongy trunks			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent thousand=Theme in trunk=Location
2	drop	present	Baobabs not said here	litres's leaves		season		vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leaf=Theme
3	use	present · perfect · passive		some hollow baobabs			as a shop and a prison and a pub	vn spend_time-104 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Duration as shop=Attribute

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:253-plants-deeper-the-oldest-tallest-and-strangest-trees.lesson:11.

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.

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