The garden in spring: buds, frogspawn, queen bumblebees and nesting birds, sentence 1
The horse chestnut's sticky buds burst open, a clump of frogspawn wobbles in the pond like jelly with black dots, and a huge furry queen bumblebee zigzags low over the lawn hunting for an old mouse hole to start her nest.
Who acts: sticky buds, huge furry bumblebee zigzags · What happens: burst, wobble, hunting, start · To what, where: pond, nest
This is a sentence of the lesson «The garden in spring: buds, frogspawn, queen bumblebees and nesting birds» 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 (sticky buds, huge furry bumblebee zigzags), 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 | 3 chestnut | det |
| 2 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 chestnut | compound |
| 3 | chestnut | chestnut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 buds | nmod:poss |
| 4 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 3 chestnut | case |
| 5 | sticky | sticky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 buds | amod |
| 6 | buds | bud | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 burst | nsubj |
| 7 | burst | burst | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 burst | xcomp |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 clump | punct |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 clump | det |
| 11 | clump | clump | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 wobbles | conj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 frogspawn | mark |
| 13 | frogspawn | frogspawn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 clump | nmod |
| 14 | wobbles | wobble | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 burst | conj |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 pond | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 pond | det |
| 17 | pond | pond | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 wobbles | obl |
| 18 | like | like | ADP | _ | 19 jelly | case |
| 19 | jelly | jelly | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 pond | nmod |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 dots | case |
| 21 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 dots | amod |
| 22 | dots | dot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 jelly | nmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 zigzags | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 zigzags | cc |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 zigzags | det |
| 26 | huge | huge | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 zigzags | amod |
| 27 | furry | furry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 zigzags | amod |
| 28 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 bumblebee | compound |
| 29 | bumblebee | bumblebee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 zigzags | compound |
| 30 | zigzags | zigzag | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 wobbles | conj |
| 31 | low | low | ADV | Degree=Pos | 30 zigzags | advmod |
| 32 | over | over | ADP | _ | 34 lawn | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 lawn | det |
| 34 | lawn | lawn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 zigzags | obl |
| 35 | hunting | hunting | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 30 zigzags | acl |
| 36 | for | for | ADP | _ | 40 hole | case |
| 37 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 40 hole | det |
| 38 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 hole | amod |
| 39 | mouse | mouse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 hole | compound |
| 40 | hole | hole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 hunting | obl |
| 41 | to | to | PART | _ | 42 start | mark |
| 42 | start | start | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 40 hole | acl |
| 43 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 44 nest | nmod:poss |
| 44 | nest | nest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 start | obj |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 burst | 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 | burst | past | the horse chestnut's sticky buds | open property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | wobble | present | the horse chestnut's sticky buds not said here | the pond like jelly with black dots | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in pond=Location | ||||
| 3 | hunting | gerund | a huge furry bumblebee zigzags not said here | for a old mouse hole | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | start | to-infinitive | a huge furry bumblebee zigzags not said here | her nest | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nest=Eventuality |
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:333-the-garden-in-spring-buds-frogspawn-queen-bumblebees-and-nesting-birds.lesson:1.
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 ×2, 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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