Plants we eat: roots, stems, leaves, flowers, fruits and seeds, sentence 15
Maize was bred from a wild grass called teosinte in Mexico about 9,000 years ago.
Who acts: wild grass · What happens: breed, call · To what, where: Maize, wild grass, teosinte · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Plants we eat: roots, stems, leaves, flowers, fruits and seeds» 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 (wild grass), 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 | Maize | maize | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 bred | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 bred | aux:pass |
| 3 | bred | breed | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 grass | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 grass | det |
| 6 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 grass | amod |
| 7 | grass | grass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 bred | obl |
| 8 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 grass | acl |
| 9 | teosinte | teosinte | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 called | xcomp |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 Mexico | case |
| 11 | Mexico | Mexico | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 bred | obl |
| 12 | about | about | ADV | _ | 13 9,000 | advmod |
| 13 | 9,000 | 9,000 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 14 years | nummod |
| 14 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 ago | obl:unmarked |
| 15 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 3 bred | advmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 bred | 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 | breed | past · passive | Maize | a wild grass | in Mexico; ago property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | call | participle | a wild grass not said here | teosinte | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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:288-plants-we-eat-roots-stems-leaves-flowers-fruits-and-seeds.lesson:15.
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 ×2, 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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