The big biology quiz, part 3: dinosaurs, evolution, conservation and food, sentence 22
A child can help nature by leaving a wild corner, picking up litter safely, feeding birds, recording sightings for scientists and wasting less, and small acts by many people add up.
Who acts: child, small acts, many people · What happens: help, leave, pick up, feed, record, waste · To what, where: nature, wild corner, litter, birds, sightings, less
This is a sentence of the lesson «The big biology quiz, part 3: dinosaurs, evolution, conservation and food» 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 (child, small acts, many people), 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 child | det |
| 2 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 help | nsubj |
| 3 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 help | aux |
| 4 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | nature | nature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 help | obj |
| 6 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 7 leaving | mark |
| 7 | leaving | leave | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 help | advcl |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 corner | det |
| 9 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 corner | amod |
| 10 | corner | corner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 leaving | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 picking | punct |
| 12 | picking | pick | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 leaving | conj |
| 13 | up | up | ADP | _ | 12 picking | compound:prt |
| 14 | litter | litter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 picking | obj |
| 15 | safely | safely | ADV | _ | 12 picking | advmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 feeding | punct |
| 17 | feeding | feed | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 leaving | conj |
| 18 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 feeding | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 recording | punct |
| 20 | recording | record | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 leaving | conj |
| 21 | sightings | sighting | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 recording | obj |
| 22 | for | for | ADP | _ | 23 scientists | case |
| 23 | scientists | scientist | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 sightings | nmod |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 wasting | cc |
| 25 | wasting | waste | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 20 recording | conj |
| 26 | less | less | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 25 wasting | obj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 add | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 add | cc |
| 29 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 acts | amod |
| 30 | acts | act | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 add | nsubj |
| 31 | by | by | ADP | _ | 33 people | case |
| 32 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 people | amod |
| 33 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 acts | nmod |
| 34 | add | add | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 help | conj |
| 35 | up | up | ADP | _ | 34 add | compound:prt |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 help | 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 | help | can | a child | nature | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nature=Beneficiary | ||||
| 2 | leave | gerund | a child not said here | a wild corner | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent corner=Theme | ||||
| 3 | pick up | gerund | a child not said here | litter | safely property | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent litter=Topic | |||
| 4 | feed | gerund | a child not said here | birds | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bird=Recipient | ||||
| 5 | record | gerund | a child not said here | sightings | for scientists | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sighting=Theme | |||
| 6 | waste | gerund | a child not said here | less | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent less=Patient | ||||
| 7 | add up speech: assert | present | small acts by many people | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 8 | act | many people | nom act «communication intransitive»: by=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:300-the-big-biology-quiz-part-3-dinosaurs-evolution-conservation-and-food.lesson:22.
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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-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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