Park trees: telling oaks, maples, chestnuts, birches, limes and willows apart, sentence 8

Maple leaves are shaped like a hand, usually with five points, maple seeds spin like helicopters as they fall, and the sycamore in Britain is a kind of maple.

Who acts: maple seeds, leaves, sycamore · What happens: shape, spin, fall, be · To what, where: Maple leaves, kind

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 (maple seeds, leaves, sycamore), 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	Maple	maple	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 leaves	compound
2	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 shaped	nsubj:pass
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 shaped	aux:pass
4	shaped	shape	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	like	like	ADP	_	7 hand	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 hand	det
7	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 shaped	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 points	punct
9	usually	usually	ADV	_	12 points	advmod
10	with	with	ADP	_	12 points	case
11	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 points	nummod
12	points	point	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 hand	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 seeds	punct
14	maple	maple	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 seeds	compound
15	seeds	seed	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 spin	nsubj
16	spin	spin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 shaped	parataxis
17	like	like	ADP	_	18 helicopters	case
18	helicopters	helicopter	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 spin	obl
19	as	as	SCONJ	_	21 fall	mark
20	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 fall	nsubj
21	fall	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 spin	advcl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 kind	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 kind	cc
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 sycamore	det
25	sycamore	sycamore	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 kind	nsubj
26	in	in	ADP	_	27 Britain	case
27	Britain	Britain	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 sycamore	nmod
28	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 kind	cop
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 kind	det
30	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 shaped	conj
31	of	of	ADP	_	32 maple	case
32	maple	maple	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 kind	nmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 shaped	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	shape	present · passive		Maple leaves	like a hand	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product
2	spin	present	maple seeds		like helicopters	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
3	fall	present	leaves = leaf			vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	is a	present	the sycamore in Britain	a kind	of maple	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:8.

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, R7-rel-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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