DNA simply: the recipe in every cell, sentence 17

DNA studies suggest there may be four species of giraffe, not one, which matters for protecting each kind; scientists still debate how many there are.

Who acts: DNA studies, four species, scientists, many · What happens: suggest, be, matter, protect, debate · To what, where: kind · Speech: someone speaks here

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 studies, four species, scientists, many), 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	DNA	DNA	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 studies	compound
2	studies	study	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 suggest	nsubj
3	suggest	suggest	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	there	there	PRON	_	6 be	expl
5	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 be	aux
6	be	be	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 suggest	ccomp
7	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 species	nummod
8	species	species	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 be	nsubj
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 giraffe	case
10	giraffe	giraffe	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 species	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 one	punct
12	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 one	advmod
13	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 giraffe	appos
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 matters	punct
15	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 matters	nsubj
16	matters	matter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 one	acl:relcl
17	for	for	SCONJ	_	18 protecting	mark
18	protecting	protect	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 matters	advcl
19	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	20 kind	det
20	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 protecting	obj
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 scientists	punct
22	scientists	scientist	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 debate	nsubj
23	still	still	ADV	_	24 debate	advmod
24	debate	debate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 suggest	parataxis
25	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	26 many	advmod
26	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 are	nsubj
27	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	28 are	expl
28	are	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 debate	ccomp
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 suggest	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	suggest speech: suggest	present	DNA studies				vn say-37.7-1-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	be	may	four species of giraffe		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	matter	present					vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus
4	protect	gerund		each kind			vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kind=Beneficiary
5	debate	present	scientists			still	vn chit_chat-37.6-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	be	present	many		there		vn exist-47.1 «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:277-dna-simply-the-recipe-in-every-cell.lesson:17.

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 ×4. 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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