What a child can do for nature, sentence 5

Small choices add up when millions of people make them: lights dimmed at night, food not wasted, native flowers planted, sightings sent to scientists and polite letters sent to the council.

Who acts: Small choices, millions · What happens: add up, make, dim, not waste, plant, send · To what, where: choices, lights, food, native flowers, sightings, 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 (Small choices, millions), 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	Small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 choices	amod
2	choices	choice	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 add	nsubj
3	add	add	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	up	up	ADP	_	3 add	compound:prt
5	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	9 make	advmod
6	millions	million	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 make	nsubj
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 people	case
8	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 millions	nmod
9	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 add	advcl
10	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 make	obj
11	:	:	PUNCT	_	12 lights	punct
12	lights	light	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 make	obj
13	dimmed	dim	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 lights	acl
14	at	at	ADP	_	15 night	case
15	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 dimmed	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 food	punct
17	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 lights	conj
18	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	19 wasted	advmod
19	wasted	waste	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 food	acl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 flowers	punct
21	native	native	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 flowers	amod
22	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 lights	conj
23	planted	plant	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 flowers	acl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 sightings	punct
25	sightings	sighting	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 lights	conj
26	sent	send	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	25 sightings	acl
27	to	to	ADP	_	28 scientists	case
28	scientists	scientist	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 sent	obl
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 letters	cc
30	polite	polite	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 letters	amod
31	letters	letter	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 lights	conj
32	sent	send	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	31 letters	acl
33	to	to	ADP	_	35 council	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 council	det
35	council	council	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 sent	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 add	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	add up speech: assert	present	Small choices				vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient
2	make	present	millions of people	choices = choice			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset they=Beneficiary light=Product
3	dim	participle		lights and food and native flowers and sightings and polite letters not said here		night	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
4	not waste	participle		food not said here			vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	plant	participle		native flowers not said here			vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
6	send	participle		sightings not said here	scientists		vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to scientist=Destination
7	send	participle		polite letters not said here	the council		vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to council=Destination

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:5.

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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