Bats of the world: flying foxes, vampire bats, the bumblebee bat and tent-makers, sentence 4
Many plants need bats to carry their pollen or spread their seeds.
Who acts: Many plants · What happens: need, carry, spread · To what, where: bats, pollen, seeds
This is a sentence of the lesson «Bats of the world: flying foxes, vampire bats, the bumblebee bat and tent-makers» 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 (Many plants), 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 | Many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 plants | amod |
| 2 | plants | plant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 need | nsubj |
| 3 | need | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | bats | bat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 need | obj |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 carry | mark |
| 6 | carry | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 bats | acl |
| 7 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 pollen | nmod:poss |
| 8 | pollen | pollen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 carry | obj |
| 9 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 10 spread | cc |
| 10 | spread | spread | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 carry | conj |
| 11 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 seeds | nmod:poss |
| 12 | seeds | seed | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 spread | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 need | 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 | need | present | Many plants | bats | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot bat=Theme | ||||
| 2 | carry | to-infinitive | Many plants not said here | Bats's pollen | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pollen=Theme | ||||
| 3 | spread | infinitive | Many plants not said here | Bats's seeds | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location seed=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:314-bats-of-the-world-flying-foxes-vampire-bats-the-bumblebee-bat-and-tent-makers.lesson:4.
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): no change. 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.
See the release 0.4.
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