The garden in spring: buds, frogspawn, queen bumblebees and nesting birds, sentence 13
A primrose has five pale yellow petals with a darker centre that guides insects to the nectar, and its name comes from old words meaning «first rose».
Who acts: primrose, darker centre, name, old words · What happens: have, guide, come, mean, name · To what, where: five pale yellow petals, insects, nectar, old words, first rose
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 (primrose, darker centre, name, old words), 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 primrose | det |
| 2 | primrose | primrose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 has | nsubj |
| 3 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 petals | nummod |
| 5 | pale | pale | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 petals | amod |
| 6 | yellow | yellow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 petals | amod |
| 7 | petals | petal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 has | obj |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 centre | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 centre | det |
| 10 | darker | dark | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 11 centre | amod |
| 11 | centre | centre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 petals | nmod |
| 12 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 guides | nsubj |
| 13 | guides | guide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 centre | acl:relcl |
| 14 | insects | insect | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 guides | obj |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 nectar | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 nectar | det |
| 17 | nectar | nectar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 guides | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 comes | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 comes | cc |
| 20 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 name | nmod:poss |
| 21 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 comes | nsubj |
| 22 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 has | conj |
| 23 | from | from | ADP | _ | 25 words | case |
| 24 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 words | amod |
| 25 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 comes | obl |
| 26 | meaning | mean | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 25 words | acl |
| 27 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 29 rose | punct |
| 28 | first | first | ADJ | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 29 rose | amod |
| 29 | rose | rose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 meaning | obj |
| 30 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 29 rose | punct |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 has | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | a primrose | five pale yellow petals | with a darker centre | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent petal=Patient | |||
| 2 | guide | present | a darker centre | insects | the nectar | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent insect=Theme to nectar=Destination | |||
| 3 | come | present | primrose's name | old words | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from word=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | mean | gerund | old words not said here | first rose | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rose=Topic | ||||
| 5 | name | primrose | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=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:333-the-garden-in-spring-buds-frogspawn-queen-bumblebees-and-nesting-birds.lesson:13.
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.
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