What a child can do for nature, sentence 6
Long grass, wildflowers and a log pile give homes to insects, frogs and hedgehogs, so a wild corner holds more life than a tidy lawn.
Who acts: Long grass, wild corner · What happens: give, hold · To what, where: homes, insects, more life
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 (Long grass, wild 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 | Long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 grass | amod |
| 2 | grass | grass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 give | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 wildflowers | punct |
| 4 | wildflowers | wildflower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 grass | conj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 homes | cc |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 pile | det |
| 7 | log | log | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 pile | compound |
| 8 | pile | pile | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 grass | conj |
| 9 | give | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | homes | home | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 give | obj |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 insects | case |
| 12 | insects | insect | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 give | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 frogs | punct |
| 14 | frogs | frog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 insects | conj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 hedgehogs | cc |
| 16 | hedgehogs | hedgehog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 insects | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 holds | punct |
| 18 | so | so | ADV | _ | 22 holds | advmod |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 corner | det |
| 20 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 corner | amod |
| 21 | corner | corner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 holds | nsubj |
| 22 | holds | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 give | conj |
| 23 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 24 life | amod |
| 24 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 holds | obj |
| 25 | than | than | ADP | _ | 28 lawn | case |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 lawn | det |
| 27 | tidy | tidy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 lawn | amod |
| 28 | lawn | lawn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 life | nmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 give | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | present | Long grass and wildflowers and a log pile | homes | insects and frogs and hedgehogs | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent home=Theme to insect=Recipient | |||
| 2 | hold | present | a wild corner | more life | than a tidy lawn | vn keep-15.2 «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:6.
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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