What a child can do for nature, sentence 1
A messy corner of a garden, a dish of water on a hot day or a small hole in a fence can save lives every night.
Who acts: messy corner · What happens: save · To what, where: lives
This is a sentence of the lesson «What a child can do for nature» 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 (messy corner), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 corner | det |
| 2 | messy | messy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 corner | amod |
| 3 | corner | corner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 save | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 garden | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 garden | det |
| 6 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 corner | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 dish | punct |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 dish | det |
| 9 | dish | dish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 corner | conj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 water | case |
| 11 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 dish | nmod |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 day | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 day | det |
| 14 | hot | hot | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 day | amod |
| 15 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 dish | nmod |
| 16 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 19 hole | cc |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 hole | det |
| 18 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 hole | amod |
| 19 | hole | hole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 dish | conj |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 fence | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 fence | det |
| 22 | fence | fence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 hole | nmod |
| 23 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 save | aux |
| 24 | save | save | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 25 | lives | life | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 save | obj |
| 26 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 27 night | det |
| 27 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 save | obl:unmarked |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 24 save | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | save | can | a messy corner of a garden and a dish of water on a hot day or a small hole in a fence | lives | night | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=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:285-what-a-child-can-do-for-nature.lesson:1.
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): no change. 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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