Park trees: telling oaks, maples, chestnuts, birches, limes and willows apart, sentence 11

Birches have white bark and small triangular leaves, are often the first trees to grow on open land, and in Ukraine and other countries people drink birch sap in spring.

Who acts: Birches, people · What happens: have, be, grow, drink · To what, where: white bark, first trees, open land, birch sap, Ukraine

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 (Birches, people), 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	Birches	birch	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 have	nsubj
2	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 bark	amod
4	bark	bark	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 have	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 leaves	cc
6	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 leaves	amod
7	triangular	triangular	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 leaves	amod
8	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 bark	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 trees	punct
10	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 trees	cop
11	often	often	ADV	_	14 trees	advmod
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 trees	det
13	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	14 trees	amod
14	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 have	conj
15	to	to	PART	_	16 grow	mark
16	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 trees	acl
17	on	on	ADP	_	19 land	case
18	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 land	amod
19	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 grow	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 drink	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 drink	cc
22	in	in	ADP	_	23 Ukraine	case
23	Ukraine	Ukraine	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 drink	obl
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 countries	cc
25	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 countries	amod
26	countries	country	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 Ukraine	conj
27	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 drink	nsubj
28	drink	drink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 have	conj
29	birch	birch	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 sap	compound
30	sap	sap	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 drink	obj
31	in	in	ADP	_	32 spring	case
32	spring	spring	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 drink	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 have	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	Birches	white bark and small triangular leaves				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bark=Patient
2	is a	present	Birches not said here	the first trees			often property	tree rules
3	grow	to-infinitive	Birches not said here		open land			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on land=Location
4	drink	present	people	birch sap	Ukraine and other countries	spring		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sap=Patient

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:11.

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): R6-punct-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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