Park trees: telling oaks, maples, chestnuts, birches, limes and willows apart, sentence 7

Oak leaves have wavy edges and acorns sit in little cups; an oak can live for many hundreds of years, and one big oak can be home to hundreds of kinds of insects.

Who acts: Oak leaves, acorns, oak, one big oak · What happens: have, sit, live, be · To what, where: wavy edges, little cups

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 (Oak leaves, acorns, oak, one big oak), 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	Oak	oak	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 leaves	compound
2	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 have	nsubj
3	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	wavy	wavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 edges	amod
5	edges	edge	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 have	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 sit	cc
7	acorns	acorn	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 sit	nsubj
8	sit	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 have	conj
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 cups	case
10	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 cups	amod
11	cups	cup	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 sit	obl
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 live	punct
13	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 oak	det
14	oak	oak	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 live	nsubj
15	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 live	aux
16	live	live	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 have	parataxis
17	for	for	ADP	_	19 hundreds	case
18	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 hundreds	amod
19	hundreds	hundred	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 live	obl
20	of	of	ADP	_	21 years	case
21	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 hundreds	nmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 hundreds	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 hundreds	cc
24	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	26 oak	nummod
25	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 oak	amod
26	oak	oak	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 hundreds	nsubj
27	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 hundreds	aux
28	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	31 hundreds	cop
29	home	home	ADV	_	31 hundreds	advmod
30	to	to	ADP	_	31 hundreds	case
31	hundreds	hundred	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 live	conj
32	of	of	ADP	_	33 kinds	case
33	kinds	kind	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 hundreds	nmod
34	of	of	ADP	_	35 insects	case
35	insects	insect	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 kinds	nmod
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 have	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	present	Oak leaves	wavy edges			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent edge=Patient
2	sit	present	acorns		little cups		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in cup=Location
3	live	can	a oak			for many hundreds of years	vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	is	can	one big oak			to hundreds; of kinds of insects; home property	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:7.

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. 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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