Plants deeper: poisonous and stinging plants and staying safe, sentence 0
A plant cannot run away from a hungry animal, so many plants defend themselves with stings, spines, burning juices and poisons.
Who acts: plant, many plants · What happens: not run away, defend, burn · To what, where: themselves
This is a sentence of the lesson «Plants deeper: poisonous and stinging plants and staying safe» 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 (plant, many plants), 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 plant | det |
| 2 | plant | plant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 run | nsubj |
| 3 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 run | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 run | advmod |
| 5 | run | run | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | away | away | ADV | _ | 5 run | advmod |
| 7 | from | from | ADP | _ | 10 animal | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 animal | det |
| 9 | hungry | hungry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 animal | amod |
| 10 | animal | animal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 away | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 defend | punct |
| 12 | so | so | ADV | _ | 15 defend | advmod |
| 13 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 plants | amod |
| 14 | plants | plant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 defend | nsubj |
| 15 | defend | defend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 run | conj |
| 16 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 15 defend | obj |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 stings | case |
| 18 | stings | sting | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 defend | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 spines | punct |
| 20 | spines | spine | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 stings | conj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 juices | punct |
| 22 | burning | burn | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 23 juices | amod |
| 23 | juices | juice | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 stings | conj |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 poisons | cc |
| 25 | poisons | poison | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 stings | conj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 run | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not run away | can | a plant | away property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | defend | present | many plants | themselves = they | with stings and spines and burning juices and poisons | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent themselves=Beneficiary | |||
| 3 | burn | gerund | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=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:255-plants-deeper-poisonous-and-stinging-plants-and-staying-safe.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): R2-punct-next ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, 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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