The garden in summer: flowers, aphids, ladybirds and flying ant day, sentence 5

Aphids suck sugary sap from plant stems, and in summer female aphids give birth to live babies without a father, so their numbers explode.

Who acts: Aphids, female aphids, numbers · What happens: suck, give, explode · To what, where: sugary sap, plant stems, birth

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 (Aphids, female aphids, numbers), 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	Aphids	aphid	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 suck	nsubj
2	suck	suck	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	sugary	sugary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 sap	amod
4	sap	sap	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 suck	obj
5	from	from	ADP	_	7 stems	case
6	plant	plant	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 stems	compound
7	stems	stem	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 suck	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 give	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 give	cc
10	in	in	ADP	_	11 summer	case
11	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 give	obl
12	female	female	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 aphids	amod
13	aphids	aphid	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 give	nsubj
14	give	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 suck	conj
15	birth	birth	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 give	obj
16	to	to	PART	_	17 live	mark
17	live	live	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 babies	amod
18	babies	baby	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 give	obl
19	without	without	ADP	_	21 father	case
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 father	det
21	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 live	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 explode	punct
23	so	so	ADV	_	26 explode	advmod
24	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 numbers	nmod:poss
25	numbers	number	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 explode	nsubj
26	explode	explode	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 suck	parataxis
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 suck	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	suck	present	Aphids	sugary sap	plant stems			vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent sap=Theme from stem=Source
2	give	present	female aphids	birth		summer	live babies obl	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent birth=Theme
3	explode	present	aphids's numbers					vn sound_emission-43.2 «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:334-the-garden-in-summer-flowers-aphids-ladybirds-and-flying-ant-day.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): R5-strong ×2. 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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