The garden in autumn: colours, conkers, webs and buried nuts, sentence 9

There is no good proof that conkers keep spiders away; a schools' competition tested it and the spiders did not mind the conkers.

Who acts: good proof, conkers, competition, spiders · What happens: be, keep away, test, not mind · To what, where: spiders, spider, conkers

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 (good proof, conkers, competition, spiders), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 is	expl
2	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	5 proof	det
4	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 proof	amod
5	proof	proof	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 is	nsubj
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 keep	mark
7	conkers	conker	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 keep	nsubj
8	keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 proof	acl
9	spiders	spider	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 keep	obj
10	away	away	ADV	_	8 keep	advmod
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 tested	punct
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 schools	det
13	schools	school	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 competition	nmod:poss
14	'	's	PART	_	13 schools	case
15	competition	competition	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 tested	nsubj
16	tested	test	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 is	parataxis
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 tested	obj
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 mind	cc
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 spiders	det
20	spiders	spider	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 mind	nsubj
21	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 mind	aux
22	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	23 mind	advmod
23	mind	mind	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 tested	conj
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 conkers	det
25	conkers	conker	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 mind	obj
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 is	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed act=assert

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	be	present	no good proof		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	keep away	present	conkers	spiders		away property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spider=Theme
3	test	past	a schools's competition	spider			vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
4	not mind	past · do-support	the spiders	the conkers			vn caring-75.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent conker=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:335-the-garden-in-autumn-colours-conkers-webs-and-buried-nuts.lesson:9.

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. 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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