Park trees: telling oaks, maples, chestnuts, birches, limes and willows apart, sentence 10
A sweet chestnut has long toothed leaves and bark that spirals around the trunk; its nuts can be roasted and eaten, and its case is much spikier than a horse chestnut's.
Who acts: sweet chestnut, bark, case · What happens: have, spiral, roast, eat, be · To what, where: toothed leaves, trunk, nuts
This is a sentence of the lesson «Park trees: telling oaks, maples, chestnuts, birches, limes and willows apart» 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 (sweet chestnut, bark, case), 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 | 3 chestnut | det |
| 2 | sweet | sweet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 chestnut | amod |
| 3 | chestnut | chestnut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 has | nsubj |
| 4 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 6 toothed | advmod |
| 6 | toothed | tooth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 leaves | amod |
| 7 | leaves | leaf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 has | obj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 bark | cc |
| 9 | bark | bark | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 leaves | conj |
| 10 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 spirals | nsubj |
| 11 | spirals | spiral | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 bark | acl:relcl |
| 12 | around | around | ADP | _ | 14 trunk | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 trunk | det |
| 14 | trunk | trunk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 spirals | obl |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 nuts | punct |
| 16 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 nuts | nmod:poss |
| 17 | nuts | nut | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 roasted | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 roasted | aux |
| 19 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 20 roasted | aux:pass |
| 20 | roasted | roast | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 has | parataxis |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 eaten | cc |
| 22 | eaten | eat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 roasted | conj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 spikier | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 spikier | cc |
| 25 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 case | nmod:poss |
| 26 | case | case | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 spikier | nsubj |
| 27 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 spikier | cop |
| 28 | much | much | ADV | _ | 29 spikier | advmod |
| 29 | spikier | spiky | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 20 roasted | conj |
| 30 | than | than | ADP | _ | 33 chestnut | case |
| 31 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 chestnut | det |
| 32 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 chestnut | compound |
| 33 | chestnut | chestnut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 spikier | obl |
| 34 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 33 chestnut | case |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 has | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | a sweet chestnut | toothed leaves and bark | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leaf=Patient | ||||
| 2 | spiral | present | bark | the trunk | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme around trunk=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | roast | can · passive | chestnut's nuts | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 4 | eat | participle | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | is | present | chestnut's case | than a horse chestnut; spiky property | tree rules |
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:339-park-trees-telling-oaks-maples-chestnuts-birches-limes-and-willows-apart.lesson:10.
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): R7-rel-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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