The garden in summer: flowers, aphids, ladybirds and flying ant day, sentence 7
Both adult ladybirds and their spiky larvae eat aphids, and one ladybird is reported to eat thousands of aphids in its life, so gardeners welcome them as free pest control.
Who acts: adult ladybirds, gardeners · What happens: eat, report, welcome · To what, where: aphids, one ladybird, thousands, life
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 (adult ladybirds, gardeners), 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 | Both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 ladybirds | det |
| 2 | adult | adult | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 ladybirds | amod |
| 3 | ladybirds | ladybird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 eat | nsubj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 larvae | cc |
| 5 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 larvae | nmod:poss |
| 6 | spiky | spiky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 larvae | amod |
| 7 | larvae | larva | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 ladybirds | conj |
| 8 | eat | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | aphids | aphid | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 eat | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 reported | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 reported | cc |
| 12 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 ladybird | nummod |
| 13 | ladybird | ladybird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 reported | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 reported | aux:pass |
| 15 | reported | report | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 eat | conj |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 eat | mark |
| 17 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 reported | xcomp |
| 18 | thousands | thousand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 eat | obj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 aphids | case |
| 20 | aphids | aphid | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 thousands | nmod |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 life | case |
| 22 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 life | nmod:poss |
| 23 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 eat | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 welcome | punct |
| 25 | so | so | ADV | _ | 27 welcome | advmod |
| 26 | gardeners | gardener | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 welcome | nsubj |
| 27 | welcome | welcome | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 eat | parataxis |
| 28 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 welcome | obj |
| 29 | as | as | ADP | _ | 32 control | case |
| 30 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 control | amod |
| 31 | pest | pest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 control | compound |
| 32 | control | control | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 welcome | obl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 eat | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | eat | present | both adult ladybirds and ladybird's spiky larvae | aphids | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent aphid=Patient | ||||
| 2 | report | present · passive | one ladybird | vn characterize-29.2-1-2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: subject=Theme clause=Attribute | |||||
| 3 | eat | to-infinitive | thousands of aphids | larva's life | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thousand=Patient | ||||
| 4 | welcome | present | gardeners | aphids = aphid | as free pest control | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent they=Theme as control=Attribute |
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:7.
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 ×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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