What a child can do for nature, sentence 16

Apps let children record the animals and plants they see; their photos let experts check what each animal really is and help scientists map where species live.

Who acts: Apps, children, photos, experts, animal, scientists · What happens: let, record, see, check, be, help · To what, where: children, animals, scientists

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 (Apps, children, photos, experts), 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	Apps	app	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 let	nsubj
2	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 let	obj
4	record	record	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 let	xcomp
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 animals	det
6	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 record	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 plants	cc
8	plants	plant	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 animals	conj
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 see	nsubj
10	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 animals	acl:relcl
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 check	punct
12	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 photos	nmod:poss
13	photos	photo	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 let	nsubj
14	let	let	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 let	parataxis
15	experts	expert	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 check	nsubj
16	check	check	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 let	xcomp
17	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	16 check	obj
18	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	19 animal	det
19	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 what	nsubj
20	really	really	ADV	_	17 what	advmod
21	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 what	cop
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 help	cc
23	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 check	conj
24	scientists	scientist	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 help	obj
25	map	map	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 help	xcomp
26	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	28 live	advmod
27	species	species	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 live	nsubj
28	live	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 map	ccomp
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 let	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	let	infinitive	Apps	children	tree rules
2	record	infinitive	children not said here	the animals and plants	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent animal=Theme
3	see	present	Apps = app	the animals and plants not said here	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer animal=Stimulus
4	let	past	Apps's photos		tree rules
5	check	infinitive	experts		vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
6	is a	present	each animal		tree rules
7	help	infinitive	experts not said here	scientists	vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent scientist=Beneficiary clause=Theme
8	map	infinitive	scientists not said here		tree rules
9	live	present	species		vn exist-47.1-1 «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:285-what-a-child-can-do-for-nature.lesson:16.

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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