The vegetable patch: peas, potatoes, tomatoes and slugs, sentence 1

Watch a pea plant for a day: its thin curly tendrils feel for a stick and wrap round it within hours, hauling the plant up towards the light like a climber on a rope.

Who acts: you, thin curly tendrils · What happens: watch, feel, wrap, haul up · To what, where: pea plant, place, plant, light

This is a sentence of the lesson «The vegetable patch: peas, potatoes, tomatoes and slugs» 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 (you, thin curly tendrils), 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	Watch	watch	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 plant	det
3	pea	pea	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 plant	compound
4	plant	plant	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Watch	obj
5	for	for	ADP	_	7 day	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 day	det
7	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Watch	obl
8	:	:	PUNCT	_	13 feel	punct
9	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 tendrils	nmod:poss
10	thin	thin	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 tendrils	amod
11	curly	curly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 tendrils	amod
12	tendrils	tendril	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 feel	nsubj
13	feel	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Watch	parataxis
14	for	for	ADP	_	16 stick	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 stick	det
16	stick	stick	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 feel	obl
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 wrap	cc
18	wrap	wrap	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 feel	conj
19	round	round	ADV	_	18 wrap	advmod
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 wrap	obl
21	within	within	ADP	_	22 hours	case
22	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 wrap	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 hauling	punct
24	hauling	haul	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 wrap	advcl
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 plant	det
26	plant	plant	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 hauling	obj
27	up	up	ADP	_	24 hauling	compound:prt
28	towards	towards	ADP	_	30 light	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 light	det
30	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 hauling	obl
31	like	like	ADP	_	33 climber	case
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 climber	det
33	climber	climber	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 light	nmod
34	on	on	ADP	_	36 rope	case
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 rope	det
36	rope	rope	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 climber	nmod
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Watch	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	watch	imperative	you not said here	a pea plant		day		vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plant=Theme
2	feel	present	place's thin curly tendrils				for a stick	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent for stick=Theme
3	wrap	present	place's thin curly tendrils not said here	place		hour	round property	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme
4	haul up	gerund	place's thin curly tendrils not said here	the plant	the light like a climber on a rope			vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent plant=Theme towards light=Destination

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:338-the-vegetable-patch-peas-potatoes-tomatoes-and-slugs.lesson:1.

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, 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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