The garden in autumn: colours, conkers, webs and buried nuts, sentence 18
An apple seed grows into a tree unlike its parent, so every tree of one apple kind is made by joining a twig of it onto the roots of another tree.
Who acts: apple seed · What happens: grow, make, join · To what, where: tree, twig, roots
This is a sentence of the lesson «The garden in autumn: colours, conkers, webs and buried nuts» 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 (apple seed), 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 | An | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 seed | det |
| 2 | apple | apple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 seed | compound |
| 3 | seed | seed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 grows | nsubj |
| 4 | grows | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | into | into | ADP | _ | 7 tree | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 tree | det |
| 7 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 grows | obl |
| 8 | unlike | unlike | ADP | _ | 10 parent | case |
| 9 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 parent | nmod:poss |
| 10 | parent | parent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 tree | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 made | punct |
| 12 | so | so | ADV | _ | 20 made | advmod |
| 13 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 14 tree | det |
| 14 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 made | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 kind | case |
| 16 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 kind | nummod |
| 17 | apple | apple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 kind | compound |
| 18 | kind | kind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 tree | nmod |
| 19 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 made | aux:pass |
| 20 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 grows | parataxis |
| 21 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 22 joining | mark |
| 22 | joining | join | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 20 made | advcl |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 twig | det |
| 24 | twig | twig | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 joining | obj |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 it | case |
| 26 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 twig | nmod |
| 27 | onto | onto | ADP | _ | 29 roots | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 roots | det |
| 29 | roots | root | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 joining | obl |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 tree | case |
| 31 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 32 tree | det |
| 32 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 roots | nmod |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 grows | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | present | a apple seed | into a tree unlike apple's parent result | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into tree=Result | ||||
| 2 | make | present · passive | every tree of one apple kind | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product | |||||
| 3 | join | gerund | a twig of apple | the roots of another tree | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent twig=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:335-the-garden-in-autumn-colours-conkers-webs-and-buried-nuts.lesson:18.
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 ×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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