The garden in autumn: colours, conkers, webs and buried nuts, sentence 7

Conkers are the seeds of the horse chestnut; a spiky case usually holds one, sometimes two or three, and conkers are poisonous to eat, unlike sweet chestnuts.

Who acts: Conkers, spiky case · What happens: be, hold, eat · To what, where: seeds, one

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 (Conkers, spiky case), 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	Conkers	conker	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 seeds	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 seeds	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 seeds	det
4	seeds	seed	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	8 chestnut	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 chestnut	det
7	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 chestnut	compound
8	chestnut	chestnut	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 seeds	nmod
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 holds	punct
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 case	det
11	spiky	spiky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 case	amod
12	case	case	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 holds	nsubj
13	usually	usually	ADV	_	14 holds	advmod
14	holds	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 seeds	parataxis
15	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 holds	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 three	punct
17	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	18 two	advmod
18	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 one	conj
19	or	or	CCONJ	_	20 three	cc
20	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	18 two	conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 poisonous	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 poisonous	cc
23	conkers	conker	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 poisonous	nsubj
24	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 poisonous	cop
25	poisonous	poisonous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 seeds	conj
26	to	to	PART	_	27 eat	mark
27	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 poisonous	advcl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 chestnuts	punct
29	unlike	unlike	ADP	_	31 chestnuts	case
30	sweet	sweet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 chestnuts	amod
31	chestnuts	chestnut	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 eat	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 seeds	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Conkers	the seeds	of the horse chestnut	tree rules
2	hold	present	a spiky case	one	usually property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme
3	is	present	conkers		poisonous property	tree rules
4	eat	to-infinitive	conkers not said here		unlike sweet chestnuts	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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: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): R7-rel-agree ×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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