Plants deeper: carnivorous plants that count, slip and suck, sentence 0
Most plants get what they need from sunlight, air, water and soil, but some live in wet bogs where the soil has almost no nitrogen, the stuff plants need to build themselves.
Who acts: Most plants, plants, some, soil, stuff · What happens: get, need, live, have, build · To what, where: sunlight, wet bogs, nitrogen, stuff, plants
This is a sentence of the lesson «Plants deeper: carnivorous plants that count, slip and suck» 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 (Most plants, plants, some, soil), 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 | Most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 2 plants | amod |
| 2 | plants | plant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 get | nsubj |
| 3 | get | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 6 need | obj |
| 5 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 need | nsubj |
| 6 | need | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 get | ccomp |
| 7 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 sunlight | case |
| 8 | sunlight | sunlight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 need | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 air | punct |
| 10 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 sunlight | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 water | punct |
| 12 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 sunlight | conj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 soil | cc |
| 14 | soil | soil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 sunlight | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 live | punct |
| 16 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 live | cc |
| 17 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 18 live | nsubj |
| 18 | live | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 get | conj |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 bogs | case |
| 20 | wet | wet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 bogs | amod |
| 21 | bogs | bog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 live | obl |
| 22 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 25 has | advmod |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 soil | det |
| 24 | soil | soil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 has | nsubj |
| 25 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 bogs | acl:relcl |
| 26 | almost | almost | ADV | _ | 28 nitrogen | advmod |
| 27 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 28 nitrogen | det |
| 28 | nitrogen | nitrogen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 has | obj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 stuff | punct |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 stuff | det |
| 31 | stuff | stuff | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 nitrogen | appos |
| 32 | plants | plant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 need | nsubj |
| 33 | need | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 stuff | acl:relcl |
| 34 | to | to | PART | _ | 35 build | mark |
| 35 | build | build | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 33 need | xcomp |
| 36 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 35 build | obj |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 get | 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 | get | present | Most plants | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | need | present | plants = plant | sunlight and air and water and soil | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot what=Theme | ||||
| 3 | live | present | some | wet bogs | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in bog=Location | ||||
| 4 | have | present | the soil | no nitrogen | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nitrogen=Patient | ||||
| 5 | need | present | plants | the stuff not said here | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | build not said to happen | to-infinitive | the stuff not said here | plants = plant | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset themselves=Product |
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:254-plants-deeper-carnivorous-plants-that-count-slip-and-suck.lesson:0.
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): R3-conj-first ×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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