DNA simply: the recipe in every cell, sentence 16
Dog DNA tests compare a dog's DNA with many breeds and can show a mix of breeds; all dog breeds carry DNA from wolves.
Who acts: DNA tests, dog breeds · What happens: compare, show, carry · To what, where: DNA, mix, wolves
This is a sentence of the lesson «DNA simply: the recipe in every cell» 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 (DNA tests, dog breeds), 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 | Dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 DNA | compound |
| 2 | DNA | DNA | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 tests | compound |
| 3 | tests | test | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 compare | nsubj |
| 4 | compare | compare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 dog | det |
| 6 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 DNA | nmod:poss |
| 7 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 6 dog | case |
| 8 | DNA | DNA | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 compare | obj |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 breeds | case |
| 10 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 breeds | amod |
| 11 | breeds | breed | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 compare | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 show | cc |
| 13 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 show | aux |
| 14 | show | show | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 compare | conj |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 mix | det |
| 16 | mix | mix | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 show | obj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 breeds | case |
| 18 | breeds | breed | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 mix | nmod |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 4 compare | punct |
| 20 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 22 breeds | det |
| 21 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 breeds | compound |
| 22 | breeds | breed | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 carry | nsubj |
| 23 | carry | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 compare | parataxis |
| 24 | DNA | DNA | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 carry | obj |
| 25 | from | from | ADP | _ | 26 wolves | case |
| 26 | wolves | wolf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 carry | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 compare | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | compare | present | DNA tests | a dog's DNA | with many breeds | vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent dna=Patient with breed=Co-Patient | |||
| 2 | show | can | DNA tests not said here | a mix of breeds | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent mix=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | carry | present | all dog breeds | DNA | wolves | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent dna=Theme from wolf=Initial_Location |
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:277-dna-simply-the-recipe-in-every-cell.lesson:16.
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): R5-strong ×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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