The vegetable patch: peas, potatoes, tomatoes and slugs, sentence 5

Pea tendrils feel touch and curl around whatever they meet, sometimes within hours, so peas can climb towards the light without growing a thick stem.

Who acts: Pea tendrils, tendrils, peas · What happens: feel, curl, meet, climb, grow · To what, where: touch, whatever, light, thick stem

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 (Pea tendrils, tendrils, peas), 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	Pea	pea	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 tendrils	compound
2	tendrils	tendril	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 feel	nsubj
3	feel	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	touch	touch	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 feel	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 curl	cc
6	curl	curl	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 feel	conj
7	around	around	ADP	_	8 whatever	case
8	whatever	whatever	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 curl	obl
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 meet	nsubj
10	meet	meet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 whatever	acl:relcl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 hours	punct
12	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	14 hours	advmod
13	within	within	ADP	_	14 hours	case
14	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 meet	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 climb	punct
16	so	so	ADV	_	19 climb	advmod
17	peas	pea	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 climb	nsubj
18	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 climb	aux
19	climb	climb	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 feel	conj
20	towards	towards	ADP	_	22 light	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 light	det
22	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 climb	obl
23	without	without	SCONJ	_	24 growing	mark
24	growing	grow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	19 climb	advcl
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 stem	det
26	thick	thick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 stem	amod
27	stem	stem	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 growing	obj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 feel	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	feel	present	Pea tendrils	touch			vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent touch=Theme
2	curl	present	Pea tendrils not said here		whatever		vn coil-9.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme around whatever=Destination
3	meet	present	tendrils = tendril			hour	vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	climb	can	peas		the light		vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme towards light=Destination
5	grow	gerund	peas not said here	a thick stem			vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location stem=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:5.

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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