What a child can do for nature, sentence 18
Councils can make wild verges, plant trees and turn lights down, and many changes start with a polite letter from a child.
Who acts: Councils, many changes · What happens: make, plant, turn down, start · To what, where: wild verges, trees, lights
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 (Councils, many changes), 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 | Councils | council | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 make | nsubj |
| 2 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 make | aux |
| 3 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 verges | amod |
| 5 | verges | verge | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 make | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 trees | punct |
| 7 | plant | plant | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 make | conj |
| 8 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 plant | obj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 turn | cc |
| 10 | turn | turn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 make | conj |
| 11 | lights | light | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 turn | obj |
| 12 | down | down | ADP | _ | 10 turn | compound:prt |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 start | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 start | cc |
| 15 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 changes | amod |
| 16 | changes | change | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 start | nsubj |
| 17 | start | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 make | conj |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 letter | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 letter | det |
| 20 | polite | polite | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 letter | amod |
| 21 | letter | letter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 start | obl |
| 22 | from | from | ADP | _ | 24 child | case |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 child | det |
| 24 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 letter | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 make | 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 | make | can | Councils | wild verges | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset verge=Product | ||||
| 2 | plant | infinitive | Councils not said here | trees | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tree=Patient | ||||
| 3 | turn down | infinitive | Councils not said here | lights | vn reject-77.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent light=Theme | ||||
| 4 | start | present | many changes | with a polite letter from a child | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V PP.subeventuality»: agent=Eventuality with letter=Subeventuality |
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:18.
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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