DNA simply: the recipe in every cell, sentence 3
You got half your DNA from your mum and half from your dad, mixed in a new way, which is why you can have your mum's eyes and your dad's ears while your sister looks different.
Who acts: You, sister · What happens: get, mix, be, have, look · To what, where: DNA, new way, eyes
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 (You, sister), 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 2 got | nsubj |
| 2 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | half | half | DET | NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind | 5 DNA | det:predet |
| 4 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 DNA | nmod:poss |
| 5 | DNA | DNA | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 got | obj |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 mum | case |
| 7 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 mum | nmod:poss |
| 8 | mum | mum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 got | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 half | cc |
| 10 | half | half | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 8 mum | conj |
| 11 | from | from | ADP | _ | 13 dad | case |
| 12 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 dad | nmod:poss |
| 13 | dad | dad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 got | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 mixed | punct |
| 15 | mixed | mix | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 got | conj |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 way | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 way | det |
| 18 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 way | amod |
| 19 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 mixed | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 have | punct |
| 21 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 why | nsubj |
| 22 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 why | cop |
| 23 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 26 have | advmod |
| 24 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 26 have | nsubj |
| 25 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 have | aux |
| 26 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 way | acl:relcl |
| 27 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 mum | nmod:poss |
| 28 | mum | mum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 29 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 28 mum | case |
| 30 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 have | obj |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 ears | cc |
| 32 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 dad | nmod:poss |
| 33 | dad | dad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 ears | nmod:poss |
| 34 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 33 dad | case |
| 35 | ears | ear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 eyes | conj |
| 36 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 39 looks | mark |
| 37 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 38 sister | nmod:poss |
| 38 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 looks | nsubj |
| 39 | looks | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 have | advcl |
| 40 | different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 looks | xcomp |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 got | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | You | your DNA | from your mum and half; from your dad | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent dna=Theme from mum=Source | |||
| 2 | mix | participle | You not said here | a new way | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | is | present | why property | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | have | can | you | your mum's eyes and your dad's ears | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Patient | ||||
| 5 | look | present | your sister | different property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
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:3.
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. 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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