From field to plate: wheat, flour and bread, sentence 19
The Svalbard seed vault in Norway keeps over a million seed samples of the world's crops inside a frozen mountain as a backup against war and disaster, because the cold keeps seeds alive for a very long time.
Who acts: seed vault, cold · What happens: keep, freeze, sample · To what, where: million seed samples, frozen mountain, seeds, crops
This is a sentence of the lesson «From field to plate: wheat, flour and bread» 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 (seed vault, cold), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 vault | det |
| 2 | Svalbard | svalbard | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 seed | compound |
| 3 | seed | seed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 vault | compound |
| 4 | vault | vault | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 keeps | nsubj |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 Norway | case |
| 6 | Norway | Norway | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 vault | nmod |
| 7 | keeps | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | over | over | ADV | _ | 10 million | advmod |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 million | det |
| 10 | million | million | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 samples | nummod |
| 11 | seed | seed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 samples | compound |
| 12 | samples | sample | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 keeps | obj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 crops | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 world | det |
| 15 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 crops | nmod:poss |
| 16 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 15 world | case |
| 17 | crops | crop | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 samples | nmod |
| 18 | inside | inside | ADP | _ | 21 mountain | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 mountain | det |
| 20 | frozen | freeze | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 mountain | amod |
| 21 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 keeps | obl |
| 22 | as | as | ADP | _ | 24 backup | case |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 backup | det |
| 24 | backup | backup | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 keeps | obl |
| 25 | against | against | ADP | _ | 26 war | case |
| 26 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 backup | nmod |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 disaster | cc |
| 28 | disaster | disaster | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 war | conj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 keeps | punct |
| 30 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 33 keeps | mark |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 cold | det |
| 32 | cold | cold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 keeps | nsubj |
| 33 | keeps | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 keeps | advcl |
| 34 | seeds | seed | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 keeps | obj |
| 35 | alive | alive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 keeps | xcomp |
| 36 | for | for | ADP | _ | 40 time | case |
| 37 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 40 time | det |
| 38 | very | very | ADV | _ | 39 long | advmod |
| 39 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 time | amod |
| 40 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 keeps | obl |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 keeps | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed polarity=none
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | present | the seed vault in Norway | million seed samples of the world's crops | a frozen mountain | as a backup against war and disaster | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent sample=Theme inside mountain=Location | ||
| 2 | freeze | participle | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 3 | keep | present | the cold | seeds | time | alive property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent seed=Theme | ||
| 4 | sample | the world's crops | nom sample «cognition transitive»: of=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:286-from-field-to-plate-wheat-flour-and-bread.lesson:19.
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): R5-strong ×3, 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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