The microscopic world: viruses and vaccines, sentence 15

The famous stripes on «broken» tulips in old Dutch paintings were caused by a virus, and in the 1630s a single striped bulb could cost as much as a house.

Who acts: virus, single striped bulb · What happens: break, cause, cost · To what, where: famous stripes, much, 1630s

This is a sentence of the lesson «The microscopic world: viruses and vaccines» 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 (virus, single striped bulb), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 stripes	det
2	famous	famous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 stripes	amod
3	stripes	stripe	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 caused	nsubj
4	on	on	ADP	_	8 tulips	case
5	«	«	PUNCT	_	8 tulips	punct
6	broken	break	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 tulips	amod
7	»	»	PUNCT	_	8 tulips	punct
8	tulips	tulip	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 stripes	nmod
9	in	in	ADP	_	12 paintings	case
10	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 paintings	amod
11	Dutch	dutch	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 paintings	amod
12	paintings	painting	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 tulips	nmod
13	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 caused	aux:pass
14	caused	cause	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
15	by	by	ADP	_	17 virus	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 virus	det
17	virus	virus	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 caused	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 cost	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 cost	cc
20	in	in	ADP	_	22 1630s	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 1630s	det
22	1630s	1630	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 cost	obl
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 bulb	det
24	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 bulb	amod
25	striped	stripe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 bulb	amod
26	bulb	bulb	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 cost	nsubj
27	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 cost	aux
28	cost	cost	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 caused	conj
29	as	as	ADV	_	30 much	advmod
30	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 cost	obj
31	as	as	ADP	_	33 house	case
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 house	det
33	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 much	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 caused	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	break in a quote	participle				vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
2	cause	past · passive	a virus	the famous stripes on broken tulips in old Dutch paintings		vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition subject=Patient
3	cost	could	a single striped bulb	much	the 1630s	vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme much=Value

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:258-the-microscopic-world-viruses-and-vaccines.lesson:15.

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): R7-rel-agree ×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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