The garden in summer: flowers, aphids, ladybirds and flying ant day, sentence 1
Look at a rose stem covered in tiny green aphids sucking sweet sap.
Who acts: you, tiny green aphids · What happens: look, cover, suck · To what, where: rose stem, sweet sap
This is a sentence of the lesson «The garden in summer: flowers, aphids, ladybirds and flying ant day» 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 (you, tiny green aphids), 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 | Look | look | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 stem | case |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 stem | det |
| 4 | rose | rose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 stem | compound |
| 5 | stem | stem | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Look | obl |
| 6 | covered | cover | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 stem | acl |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 aphids | case |
| 8 | tiny | tiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 aphids | amod |
| 9 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 aphids | amod |
| 10 | aphids | aphid | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 covered | obl |
| 11 | sucking | suck | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 aphids | acl |
| 12 | sweet | sweet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 sap | amod |
| 13 | sap | sap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 sucking | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Look | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | imperative | you not said here | at a rose stem | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at stem=Theme | ||||
| 2 | cover | participle | a rose stem not said here | in tiny green aphids | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent in aphid=Theme | ||||
| 3 | suck | gerund | tiny green aphids not said here | sweet sap | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent sap=Source |
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:334-the-garden-in-summer-flowers-aphids-ladybirds-and-flying-ant-day.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): 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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