Weeds and wildflowers: dandelions, nettles, daisies, clover and plantain, sentence 12

Clover roots have tiny lumps full of helpful bacteria that make natural fertiliser from the air, so farmers grow clover to feed the soil.

Who acts: Clover roots, helpful bacteria, farmers · What happens: have, make, grow, feed · To what, where: tiny lumps, natural fertiliser, air, clover, soil

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 roots, helpful bacteria, farmers), 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 roots	compound
2	roots	root	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 have	nsubj
3	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 lumps	amod
5	lumps	lump	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 have	obj
6	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 lumps	amod
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 bacteria	case
8	helpful	helpful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 bacteria	amod
9	bacteria	bacterium	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 full	obl
10	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 make	nsubj
11	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 bacteria	acl:relcl
12	natural	natural	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 fertiliser	amod
13	fertiliser	fertiliser	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 make	obj
14	from	from	ADP	_	16 air	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 air	det
16	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 make	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 grow	punct
18	so	so	ADV	_	20 grow	advmod
19	farmers	farmer	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 grow	nsubj
20	grow	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 have	conj
21	clover	clover	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 grow	obj
22	to	to	PART	_	23 feed	mark
23	feed	feed	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 grow	advcl
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 soil	det
25	soil	soil	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 feed	obj
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 have	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	have	present	Clover roots	tiny lumps		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lump=Patient
2	make	present	helpful bacteria	natural fertiliser	the air	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V PP»: agent=Asset fertiliser=Product from air=Material
3	grow	present	farmers	clover		vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location clover=Theme
4	feed	to-infinitive	farmers not said here	the soil		vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent soil=Recipient

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:12.

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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