Food from around the world: how crops travelled the globe, sentence 15

Honey can last thousands of years because it has very little water and is a bit acidic, so germs cannot grow; it should not be given to babies under one year.

Who acts: Honey, germs · What happens: last, have, be, not grow, not give · To what, where: thousands, little water, honey, babies

This is a sentence of the lesson «Food from around the world: how crops travelled the globe» 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 (Honey, germs), 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	Honey	honey	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 last	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 last	aux
3	last	last	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 given	parataxis
4	thousands	thousand	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 last	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 years	case
6	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 thousands	nmod
7	because	because	SCONJ	_	9 has	mark
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 has	nsubj
9	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 last	advcl
10	very	very	ADV	_	11 little	advmod
11	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 water	amod
12	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 has	obj
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 acidic	cc
14	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 acidic	cop
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 bit	det
16	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 acidic	obl:unmarked
17	acidic	acidic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 has	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 grow	punct
19	so	so	ADV	_	23 grow	advmod
20	germs	germ	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 grow	nsubj
21	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 grow	aux
22	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	23 grow	advmod
23	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 acidic	parataxis
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	9 has	punct
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 given	nsubj:pass
26	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 given	aux
27	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	29 given	advmod
28	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	29 given	aux:pass
29	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
30	to	to	ADP	_	31 babies	case
31	babies	baby	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 given	obl
32	under	under	ADP	_	34 year	case
33	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	34 year	nummod
34	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 babies	nmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 last	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	last	can	Honey	thousands of years			vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme thousand=Value
2	have	present	honey	little water			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Patient
3	is	present	honey not said here			a bit obl:unmarked; acidic property	tree rules
4	not grow	can	germs				vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	not give	should · passive		honey	babies under one year		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Theme to baby=Recipient

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:289-food-from-around-the-world-how-crops-travelled-the-globe.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): R6-punct-agree ×1, 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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