The garden in spring: buds, frogspawn, queen bumblebees and nesting birds, sentence 5
A cut horse chestnut twig kept in water indoors opens its buds early.
Who acts: cut chestnut twig · What happens: keep, open · To what, where: cut chestnut twig, water, buds
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 (cut chestnut twig), 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 | 5 twig | det |
| 2 | cut | cut | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 twig | amod |
| 3 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 chestnut | compound |
| 4 | chestnut | chestnut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 twig | compound |
| 5 | twig | twig | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 opens | nsubj |
| 6 | kept | keep | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 twig | acl |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 water | case |
| 8 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 kept | obl |
| 9 | indoors | indoors | ADV | _ | 6 kept | advmod |
| 10 | opens | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 buds | nmod:poss |
| 12 | buds | bud | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 opens | obj |
| 13 | early | early | ADV | Degree=Pos | 10 opens | advmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 opens | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | participle | a cut chestnut twig not said here | water | indoors property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in water=Location | |||
| 2 | open | present | a cut chestnut twig | twig's buds | early property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location bud=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:5.
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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