Natural selection we can watch: moths, finches, germs and tuskless elephants, sentence 14

From one wild cabbage plant, farmers bred cabbage, broccoli, cauliflower, kale and Brussels sprouts, choosing leaves, flowers or buds; they are all the same species.

Who acts: farmers · What happens: breed, choose, be · To what, where: cabbage, one wild cabbage plant, leaves, same species

This is a sentence of the lesson «Natural selection we can watch: moths, finches, germs and tuskless elephants» 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 (farmers), 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	From	from	ADP	_	5 plant	case
2	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 plant	nummod
3	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 plant	amod
4	cabbage	cabbage	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 plant	compound
5	plant	plant	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 bred	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 bred	punct
7	farmers	farmer	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 bred	nsubj
8	bred	breed	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	cabbage	cabbage	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 bred	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 broccoli	punct
11	broccoli	broccoli	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 cabbage	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 cauliflower	punct
13	cauliflower	cauliflower	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 cabbage	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 kale	punct
15	kale	kale	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 cabbage	conj
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 sprouts	cc
17	Brussels	brussels	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 sprouts	compound
18	sprouts	sprout	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 cabbage	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 leaves	punct
20	choosing	choose	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 bred	advcl
21	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 choosing	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 flowers	punct
23	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 leaves	conj
24	or	or	CCONJ	_	25 buds	cc
25	buds	bud	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 flowers	conj
26	;	;	PUNCT	_	32 species	punct
27	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 species	nsubj
28	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 species	cop
29	all	all	ADV	_	32 species	advmod
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 species	det
31	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 species	amod
32	species	species	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 bred	parataxis
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 bred	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	breed	past	farmers	cabbage and broccoli and cauliflower and kale and Brussels sprouts	one wild cabbage plant		tree rules
2	choose	gerund	farmers not said here	leaves and flowers or buds			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leaf=Theme
3	is a	present	farmers = farmer	the same species		all property	tree rules

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:279-natural-selection-we-can-watch-moths-finches-germs-and-tuskless-elephants.lesson:14.

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): R2-punct-next ×1, R3-conj-first ×1, 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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