Park trees: telling oaks, maples, chestnuts, birches, limes and willows apart, sentence 17

In winter, bark, buds and shape still tell trees apart: ash has black buds, beech has long pointed buds, birch bark is white and oak bark is rough and cracked.

Who acts: bark, ash, beech, birch bark, oak bark · What happens: tell, have, point, be · To what, where: trees, black buds, long pointed buds · 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 (bark, ash, beech, birch 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	In	in	ADP	_	2 winter	case
2	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 tell	obl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 bark	punct
4	bark	bark	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 tell	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 buds	punct
6	buds	bud	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 bark	conj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 shape	cc
8	shape	shape	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 bark	conj
9	still	still	ADV	_	10 tell	advmod
10	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
11	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 tell	obj
12	apart	apart	ADV	_	10 tell	advmod
13	:	:	PUNCT	_	15 has	punct
14	ash	ash	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 has	nsubj
15	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 tell	parataxis
16	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 buds	amod
17	buds	bud	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 has	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 has	punct
19	beech	beech	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 has	nsubj
20	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 has	conj
21	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 buds	amod
22	pointed	point	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 buds	amod
23	buds	bud	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 has	obj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 white	punct
25	birch	birch	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 bark	compound
26	bark	bark	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 white	nsubj
27	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 white	cop
28	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 has	parataxis
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 rough	cc
30	oak	oak	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 bark	compound
31	bark	bark	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 rough	nsubj
32	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 rough	cop
33	rough	rough	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 white	conj
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 cracked	cc
35	cracked	cracked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 rough	conj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 tell	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	infinitive	bark and buds and shape	trees	still; winter	apart property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent tree=Recipient
2	have	present	ash	black buds			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bud=Patient
3	have	present	beech	long pointed buds			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bud=Patient
4	point	participle					vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	is	present	birch bark			white property	tree rules
6	is	present	oak bark			rough property	tree rules
7	be		oak bark not said here				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:17.

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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, 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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