The microscopic world: cells, the building blocks of life, sentence 8

Plant cells have a stiff wall, a nucleus and, in green parts, chloroplasts that catch light; iodine stain makes the nucleus show as a dark dot.

Who acts: Plant cells, chloroplasts, iodine stain, nucleus · What happens: have, catch, make, show · To what, where: stiff wall, light

This is a sentence of the lesson «The microscopic world: cells, the building blocks of life» 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 cells, chloroplasts, iodine stain, nucleus), 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	Plant	plant	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 cells	compound
2	cells	cell	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 have	nsubj
3	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 wall	det
5	stiff	stiff	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 wall	amod
6	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 have	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 nucleus	punct
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 nucleus	det
9	nucleus	nucleus	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 wall	conj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 parts	cc
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 parts	punct
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 parts	case
13	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 parts	amod
14	parts	part	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 nucleus	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 chloroplasts	punct
16	chloroplasts	chloroplast	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 parts	appos
17	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 catch	nsubj
18	catch	catch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 chloroplasts	acl:relcl
19	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 catch	obj
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 makes	punct
21	iodine	iodine	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 stain	compound
22	stain	stain	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 makes	nsubj
23	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 have	parataxis
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 nucleus	det
25	nucleus	nucleus	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 show	nsubj
26	show	show	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 makes	xcomp
27	as	as	ADP	_	30 dot	case
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 dot	det
29	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 dot	amod
30	dot	dot	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 show	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 have	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have	present	Plant cells	a stiff wall and a nucleus and green parts		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wall=Patient
2	catch	present	chloroplasts	light		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent light=Theme
3	make	present	iodine stain			tree rules
4	show	infinitive	the nucleus		as a dark dot	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: 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:256-the-microscopic-world-cells-the-building-blocks-of-life.lesson:8.

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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