The vegetable patch: peas, potatoes, tomatoes and slugs, sentence 14
Slug pellets can harm hedgehogs and birds, and the most harmful kind was banned in Britain.
Who acts: Slug pellets · What happens: harm, ban · To what, where: hedgehogs, harmful kind, Britain
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 (Slug pellets), 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 | Slug | slug | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 pellets | compound |
| 2 | pellets | pellet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 harm | nsubj |
| 3 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 harm | aux |
| 4 | harm | harm | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | hedgehogs | hedgehog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 harm | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 birds | cc |
| 7 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 hedgehogs | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 banned | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 banned | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 kind | det |
| 11 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 12 harmful | advmod |
| 12 | harmful | harmful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 kind | amod |
| 13 | kind | kind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 banned | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 banned | aux:pass |
| 15 | banned | ban | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 harm | conj |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 Britain | case |
| 17 | Britain | Britain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 banned | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 harm | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | harm | can | Slug pellets | hedgehogs and birds | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus hedgehog=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | ban | past · passive | the harmful kind | Britain | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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:338-the-vegetable-patch-peas-potatoes-tomatoes-and-slugs.lesson:14.
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): no change. 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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