What a child can do for nature, sentence 15
Native flowers feed local insects best, and some caterpillars can eat only one kind of plant.
Who acts: Native flowers, caterpillars · What happens: feed, eat · To what, where: local insects, one kind
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 (Native flowers, caterpillars), 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 | Native | native | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 flowers | amod |
| 2 | flowers | flower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 feed | nsubj |
| 3 | feed | feed | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | local | local | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 insects | amod |
| 5 | insects | insect | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 feed | obj |
| 6 | best | well | ADV | Degree=Sup | 3 feed | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 eat | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 eat | cc |
| 9 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 10 caterpillars | det |
| 10 | caterpillars | caterpillar | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 eat | nsubj |
| 11 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 eat | aux |
| 12 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 feed | conj |
| 13 | only | only | ADV | _ | 14 one | advmod |
| 14 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 kind | nummod |
| 15 | kind | kind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 eat | obj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 plant | case |
| 17 | plant | plant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 kind | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 feed | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feed | present | Native flowers | local insects | well property | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent insect=Recipient | |||
| 2 | eat | can | some caterpillars | one kind of plant | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kind=Patient |
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:15.
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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