The garden in summer: flowers, aphids, ladybirds and flying ant day, sentence 11
Longer, unmown grass lets clover, daisies and other flowers bloom and feed bees and butterflies, and «No Mow May» asks people to skip mowing for a month.
Who acts: Longer unmown grass, clover, Mow · What happens: let, bloom, feed, ask, skip, mow · To what, where: clover, bees, people
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 (Longer unmown grass, clover, Mow), 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 | Longer | long | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 4 grass | amod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Longer | punct |
| 3 | unmown | unmown | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 grass | amod |
| 4 | grass | grass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 lets | nsubj |
| 5 | lets | let | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | clover | clover | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 lets | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 daisies | punct |
| 8 | daisies | daisy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 clover | conj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 flowers | cc |
| 10 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 flowers | amod |
| 11 | flowers | flower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 clover | conj |
| 12 | bloom | bloom | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 lets | xcomp |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 feed | cc |
| 14 | feed | feed | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 bloom | conj |
| 15 | bees | bee | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 feed | obj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 butterflies | cc |
| 17 | butterflies | butterfly | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 bees | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 asks | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 asks | cc |
| 20 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 22 Mow | punct |
| 21 | No | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 22 Mow | det |
| 22 | Mow | mow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 asks | nsubj |
| 23 | May | May | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 Mow | flat |
| 24 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 23 May | punct |
| 25 | asks | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 lets | conj |
| 26 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 asks | obj |
| 27 | to | to | PART | _ | 28 skip | mark |
| 28 | skip | skip | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 asks | xcomp |
| 29 | mowing | mow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 28 skip | xcomp |
| 30 | for | for | ADP | _ | 32 month | case |
| 31 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 32 month | det |
| 32 | month | month | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 mowing | obl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 lets | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let | present | Longer unmown grass | clover and daisies and other flowers | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | bloom | present | clover and daisies and other flowers not said here | vn entity_specific_modes_being-47.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | feed | infinitive | clover and daisies and other flowers not said here | bees and butterflies | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bee=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | ask speech: ask | present | no Mow | people | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent people=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 5 | skip not said to happen | to-infinitive | no Mow not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | mow | gerund | no Mow not said here | month | vn carve-21.2-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient |
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:11.
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): R3-conj-first ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-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.
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