Weeds and wildflowers: dandelions, nettles, daisies, clover and plantain, sentence 11

Clover leaves usually have three leaflets, and four-leaf clovers are rare, about one in many thousands, though some people find many by looking hard.

Who acts: Clover leaves, leaf clovers, people · What happens: have, be, find, look · To what, where: three leaflets, many

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 (Clover leaves, leaf clovers, people), 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	Clover	clover	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 leaves	compound
2	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 have	nsubj
3	usually	usually	ADV	_	4 have	advmod
4	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 leaflets	nummod
6	leaflets	leaflet	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 have	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 rare	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 rare	cc
9	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 leaf	nummod
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 four	punct
11	leaf	leaf	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 clovers	compound
12	clovers	clover	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 rare	nsubj
13	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 rare	cop
14	rare	rare	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 have	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 one	punct
16	about	about	ADV	_	17 one	advmod
17	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 rare	parataxis
18	in	in	ADP	_	20 thousands	case
19	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 thousands	amod
20	thousands	thousand	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 one	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 find	punct
22	though	though	SCONJ	_	25 find	mark
23	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	24 people	det
24	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 find	nsubj
25	find	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 rare	conj
26	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 find	obj
27	by	by	SCONJ	_	28 looking	mark
28	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	26 many	advcl
29	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	28 looking	advmod
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 have	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have	present	Clover leaves	three leaflets	usually property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leaflet=Patient
2	is	present	leaf clovers		rare property	tree rules
3	find	present	some people	many		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent many=Topic
4	look	gerund	some people not said here		hard property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

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:11.

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): R7-rel-agree ×2. 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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