The garden in spring: buds, frogspawn, queen bumblebees and nesting birds, sentence 4

Horse chestnut buds are covered in sticky stuff that keeps out insects and cold, and inside them the whole leaf and flower are packed tightly, ready to open.

Who acts: sticky stuff · What happens: cover, keep out, pack, open · To what, where: chestnut buds, insects, whole leaf

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 stuff), 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	Horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 chestnut	compound
2	chestnut	chestnut	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 buds	compound
3	buds	bud	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 covered	nsubj:pass
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 covered	aux:pass
5	covered	cover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 stuff	case
7	sticky	sticky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 stuff	amod
8	stuff	stuff	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 covered	obl
9	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 keeps	nsubj
10	keeps	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 stuff	acl:relcl
11	out	out	ADP	_	10 keeps	compound:prt
12	insects	insect	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 keeps	obj
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 cold	cc
14	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 insects	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 packed	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 packed	cc
17	inside	inside	ADP	_	18 them	case
18	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 packed	obl
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 leaf	det
20	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 leaf	amod
21	leaf	leaf	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 packed	nsubj
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 flower	cc
23	flower	flower	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 leaf	conj
24	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 packed	aux:pass
25	packed	pack	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 covered	conj
26	tightly	tightly	ADV	_	25 packed	advmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 tightly	punct
28	ready	ready	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 packed	advcl
29	to	to	PART	_	30 open	mark
30	open	open	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 ready	xcomp
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 covered	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed polarity=none

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	cover	present · passive		chestnut buds	in sticky stuff	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination in stuff=Theme
2	keep out	present	sticky stuff	insects		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent insect=Theme
3	pack	present · passive		the whole leaf and flower	inside buds = bud; tightly property	vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme inside they=Destination
4	open	to-infinitive				vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=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:333-the-garden-in-spring-buds-frogspawn-queen-bumblebees-and-nesting-birds.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): R1-cc-next ×2, R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, 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.

See the release 0.4.

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