Park trees: telling oaks, maples, chestnuts, birches, limes and willows apart, sentence 3
Park a car under a lime tree in July and come back to a windscreen covered in sticky drops: the aphids up in the leaves have been dribbling sweet honeydew all afternoon.
Who acts: you, aphids · What happens: park, come back, cover, dribble · To what, where: car, lime tree, windscreen, sweet honeydew
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 (you, aphids), 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 | Park | park | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 car | det |
| 3 | car | car | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Park | obj |
| 4 | under | under | ADP | _ | 7 tree | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 tree | det |
| 6 | lime | lime | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 tree | compound |
| 7 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Park | obl |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 July | case |
| 9 | July | July | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Park | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 come | cc |
| 11 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Park | conj |
| 12 | back | back | ADV | _ | 11 come | advmod |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 windscreen | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 windscreen | det |
| 15 | windscreen | windscreen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 come | obl |
| 16 | covered | cover | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 windscreen | acl |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 drops | case |
| 18 | sticky | sticky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 drops | amod |
| 19 | drops | drop | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 covered | obl |
| 20 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 22 aphids | punct |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 aphids | det |
| 22 | aphids | aphid | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 dribbling | nsubj |
| 23 | up | up | ADV | _ | 22 aphids | advmod |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 leaves | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 leaves | det |
| 26 | leaves | leaf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 aphids | nmod |
| 27 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 dribbling | aux |
| 28 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 29 dribbling | aux |
| 29 | dribbling | dribble | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 1 Park | parataxis |
| 30 | sweet | sweet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 honeydew | amod |
| 31 | honeydew | honeydew | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 dribbling | obj |
| 32 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 33 afternoon | det |
| 33 | afternoon | afternoon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 dribbling | obl:unmarked |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Park | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | park | imperative | you not said here | a car | a lime tree | july | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent car=Theme under tree=Destination | ||
| 2 | come back | infinitive | you not said here | a windscreen | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to windscreen=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | cover | participle | a windscreen not said here | in sticky drops | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent in drop=Theme | ||||
| 4 | dribble | present · perfect · progressive | the aphids in the leaves | sweet honeydew | afternoon | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent honeydew=Theme |
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:3.
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 ×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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