The garden in spring: buds, frogspawn, queen bumblebees and nesting birds, sentence 3
Most of these spring jobs are about babies: eggs, nests and new families, so the kindest thing a person can do is watch from a little way off and help without getting in the way.
Who acts: Most, person, kindest thing · What happens: be, do, help, get · To what, where: kindest thing, little way, way
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 (Most, person, kindest thing), 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 | Most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 8 babies | nsubj |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 jobs | case |
| 3 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 5 jobs | det |
| 4 | spring | spring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 jobs | compound |
| 5 | jobs | job | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Most | nmod |
| 6 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 babies | cop |
| 7 | about | about | ADP | _ | 8 babies | case |
| 8 | babies | baby | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 9 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 10 eggs | punct |
| 10 | eggs | egg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 babies | appos |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 nests | punct |
| 12 | nests | nest | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 eggs | conj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 families | cc |
| 14 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 families | amod |
| 15 | families | family | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 eggs | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 watch | punct |
| 17 | so | so | ADV | _ | 26 watch | advmod |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 thing | det |
| 19 | kindest | kind | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 20 thing | amod |
| 20 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 watch | nsubj |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 person | det |
| 22 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 do | nsubj |
| 23 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 do | aux |
| 24 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 thing | acl:relcl |
| 25 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 watch | cop |
| 26 | watch | watch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 babies | parataxis |
| 27 | from | from | ADP | _ | 30 way | case |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 way | det |
| 29 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 way | amod |
| 30 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 watch | obl |
| 31 | off | off | ADV | _ | 26 watch | advmod |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 help | cc |
| 33 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 watch | conj |
| 34 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 35 getting | mark |
| 35 | getting | get | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 33 help | advcl |
| 36 | in | in | ADP | _ | 38 way | case |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 way | det |
| 38 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 getting | obl |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 babies | 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 | is | present | Most of this spring jobs | about babies | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | do | can | a person | the kindest thing not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | is | present | the kindest thing | a little way | off, watch property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | help | infinitive | the kindest thing not said here | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | get | gerund | the kindest thing not said here | the way | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
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: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): 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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