Plants we eat: roots, stems, leaves, flowers, fruits and seeds, sentence 7
A potato is a swollen underground stem called a tuber, and its eyes are buds; a sweet potato really is a root.
Who acts: potato, swollen underground stem, eyes, sweet potato · What happens: be, call · To what, where: swollen underground stem, tuber, buds, root · 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 (potato, swollen underground stem, eyes, sweet potato), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 potato | det |
| 2 | potato | potato | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 stem | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 stem | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 stem | det |
| 5 | swollen | swollen | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 stem | amod |
| 6 | underground | underground | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 stem | amod |
| 7 | stem | stem | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 stem | acl |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 tuber | det |
| 10 | tuber | tuber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 called | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 buds | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 buds | cc |
| 13 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 14 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 buds | nsubj |
| 15 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 buds | cop |
| 16 | buds | bud | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 tuber | conj |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 root | punct |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 potato | det |
| 19 | sweet | sweet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 potato | amod |
| 20 | potato | potato | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 root | nsubj |
| 21 | really | really | ADV | _ | 20 potato | advmod |
| 22 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 root | cop |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 root | det |
| 24 | root | root | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 stem | parataxis |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 stem | 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 | is a | present | a potato | a swollen underground stem | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | call | participle | a swollen underground stem not said here | a tuber and buds | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent tuber=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | is a | present | potato's eyes | buds | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | is a | present | a sweet potato | a root | tree rules |
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:7.
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): R1-cc-next ×1, R2-punct-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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