The big biology quiz, part 2: plants, the body and microbes, sentence 3
The same few ideas answer many questions: plants make food from light, every living thing carries a recipe called DNA, and germs come in different kinds, so each needs the right weapon.
Who acts: same few ideas, plants, living thing, recipe, germs, each · What happens: answer, make, carry, call, come in, need · To what, where: many questions, food, light, recipe, DNA, different kinds · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «The big biology quiz, part 2: plants, the body and microbes» 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 (same few ideas, plants, living thing, recipe), 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 ideas | det |
| 2 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 ideas | amod |
| 3 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 ideas | amod |
| 4 | ideas | idea | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 answer | nsubj |
| 5 | answer | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 questions | amod |
| 7 | questions | question | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 answer | obj |
| 8 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 5 answer | punct |
| 9 | plants | plant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 make | nsubj |
| 10 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 answer | parataxis |
| 11 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 make | obj |
| 12 | from | from | ADP | _ | 13 light | case |
| 13 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 make | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 carries | punct |
| 15 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 17 thing | det |
| 16 | living | living | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 thing | compound |
| 17 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 carries | nsubj |
| 18 | carries | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 answer | parataxis |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 recipe | det |
| 20 | recipe | recipe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 carries | obj |
| 21 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 recipe | acl |
| 22 | DNA | DNA | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 called | xcomp |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 come | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 come | cc |
| 25 | germs | germ | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 come | nsubj |
| 26 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 carries | conj |
| 27 | in | in | ADV | _ | 26 come | advmod |
| 28 | different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 kinds | amod |
| 29 | kinds | kind | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 come | obl |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 needs | punct |
| 31 | so | so | ADV | _ | 33 needs | advmod |
| 32 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 33 needs | nsubj |
| 33 | needs | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 answer | parataxis |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 weapon | det |
| 35 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 weapon | amod |
| 36 | weapon | weapon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 needs | obj |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 answer | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | present | the same few ideas | many questions | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent question=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | make | present | plants | food | light | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V PP»: agent=Asset food=Product from light=Material | |||
| 3 | carry | present | every living thing | a recipe | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent recipe=Theme | ||||
| 4 | call | participle | a recipe not said here | DNA | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | come in | present | germs | different kinds | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 6 | need | present | each | the right weapon | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot weapon=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:299-the-big-biology-quiz-part-2-plants-the-body-and-microbes.lesson:3.
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): R7-rel-agree ×2. 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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