Park trees: telling oaks, maples, chestnuts, birches, limes and willows apart, sentence 14

Willow catkins are flowers, soft like a cat's paw, which is why people call them pussy willow, and they are early food for bees.

Who acts: Willow catkins, paw, people · What happens: be, call · To what, where: flowers, catkins, early food · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Willow catkins, paw, 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	Willow	willow	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 catkins	compound
2	catkins	catkin	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 flowers	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 flowers	cop
4	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 soft	punct
6	soft	soft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 flowers	amod
7	like	like	ADP	_	11 paw	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 cat	det
9	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 paw	nmod:poss
10	's	's	PART	_	9 cat	case
11	paw	paw	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 soft	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 why	punct
13	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 why	nsubj
14	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 why	cop
15	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	11 paw	acl:relcl
16	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 call	nsubj
17	call	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 why	advcl
18	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 call	obj
19	pussy	pussy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 willow	amod
20	willow	willow	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 call	xcomp
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 food	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 food	cc
23	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 food	nsubj
24	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 food	cop
25	early	early	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 food	amod
26	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 flowers	conj
27	for	for	ADP	_	28 bees	case
28	bees	bee	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 food	nmod
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 flowers	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Willow catkins	flowers and early food		tree rules
2	is	present	a cat's paw		why property	tree rules
3	call	present	people	catkins = catkin		vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient
4	is a	present	people	early food	for bees	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:14.

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 ×3. 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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