Park trees: telling oaks, maples, chestnuts, birches, limes and willows apart, sentence 13
Willows love wet ground and grow fast; willow bark has a chemical used long ago to ease pain, and the medicine aspirin was later made from a similar chemical.
Who acts: Willows, willow bark · What happens: love, grow, have, use, ease, make · To what, where: wet ground, chemical, pain, medicine aspirin, similar chemical
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 (Willows, willow bark), 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 | Willows | willow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 love | nsubj |
| 2 | love | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | wet | wet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 ground | amod |
| 4 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 love | obj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 grow | cc |
| 6 | grow | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 love | conj |
| 7 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 6 grow | advmod |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 has | punct |
| 9 | willow | willow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 bark | compound |
| 10 | bark | bark | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 has | nsubj |
| 11 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 love | parataxis |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 chemical | det |
| 13 | chemical | chemical | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 has | obj |
| 14 | used | use | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 chemical | acl |
| 15 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 16 ago | advmod |
| 16 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 14 used | advmod |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 ease | mark |
| 18 | ease | ease | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 used | advcl |
| 19 | pain | pain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 ease | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 made | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 made | cc |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 aspirin | det |
| 23 | medicine | medicine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 aspirin | compound |
| 24 | aspirin | aspirin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 made | nsubj:pass |
| 25 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 made | aux:pass |
| 26 | later | late | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 27 made | advmod |
| 27 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 has | conj |
| 28 | from | from | ADP | _ | 31 chemical | case |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 chemical | det |
| 30 | similar | similar | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 chemical | amod |
| 31 | chemical | chemical | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 made | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 love | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed polarity=none
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | love | present | Willows | wet ground | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer ground=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | grow | present | Willows not said here | fast property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | have | present | willow bark | a chemical | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chemical=Patient | ||||
| 4 | use | participle | a chemical not said here | ago property | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | ease | to-infinitive | pain | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent pain=Patient | |||||
| 6 | make | past · passive | the medicine aspirin | a similar chemical | late property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V PP»: subject=Product from chemical=Material |
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:13.
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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