The vegetable patch: peas, potatoes, tomatoes and slugs, sentence 7
A monk called Gregor Mendel grew thousands of pea plants to learn how features pass from parents to their young, and his work started the science of genetics.
Who acts: monk, features, work · What happens: call, grow, learn, pass, start, work · To what, where: monk, thousands, young, science · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (monk, features, work), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 monk | det |
| 2 | monk | monk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 grew | nsubj |
| 3 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 monk | acl |
| 4 | Gregor | Gregor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 called | xcomp |
| 5 | Mendel | Mendel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Gregor | flat |
| 6 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | thousands | thousand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 grew | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 plants | case |
| 9 | pea | pea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 plants | compound |
| 10 | plants | plant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 thousands | nmod |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 learn | mark |
| 12 | learn | learn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 grew | advcl |
| 13 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 15 pass | advmod |
| 14 | features | feature | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 pass | nsubj |
| 15 | pass | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 learn | ccomp |
| 16 | from | from | ADP | _ | 17 parents | case |
| 17 | parents | parent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 pass | obl |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 young | case |
| 19 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 young | nmod:poss |
| 20 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 pass | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 started | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 started | cc |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 work | nmod:poss |
| 24 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 started | nsubj |
| 25 | started | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 grew | conj |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 science | det |
| 27 | science | science | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 started | obj |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 genetics | case |
| 29 | genetics | genetics | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 science | nmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 grew | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | participle | a monk not said here | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | grow | past | a monk | thousands of pea plants | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location thousand=Theme | ||||
| 3 | learn | to-infinitive | a monk not said here | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | pass | present | features | features's young | from parents | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme from parent=Initial_Location to young=Destination | |||
| 5 | start | past | monk's work | the science of genetics | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent science=Eventuality | ||||
| 6 | work | monk | nom work «act intransitive»: poss=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:338-the-vegetable-patch-peas-potatoes-tomatoes-and-slugs.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): R8-pos-agree ×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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