Weeds and wildflowers: dandelions, nettles, daisies, clover and plantain, sentence 0

A weed is not a kind of plant; it is a plant growing where somebody does not want it.

Who acts: weed, plant, somebody · What happens: not be, be, grow, not want · To what, where: kind, plant, weed

This is a sentence of the lesson «Weeds and wildflowers: dandelions, nettles, daisies, clover and plantain» 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 (weed, plant, somebody), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 weed	det
2	weed	weed	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 kind	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 kind	cop
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 kind	advmod
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 kind	det
6	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 plant	case
8	plant	plant	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 kind	nmod
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 growing	punct
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 plant	nsubj
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 plant	cop
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 plant	det
13	plant	plant	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 kind	parataxis
14	growing	grow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 plant	acl
15	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	19 want	advmod
16	somebody	somebody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	19 want	nsubj
17	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 want	aux
18	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	19 want	advmod
19	want	want	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 growing	advcl
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 want	obj
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 kind	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not is a	present	a weed	a kind	of plant	tree rules
2	is a	present	weed	a plant		tree rules
3	grow	gerund	a plant not said here			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	not want	present · do-support	somebody	weed		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot it=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:340-weeds-and-wildflowers-dandelions-nettles-daisies-clover-and-plantain.lesson:0.

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): no change. 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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