Weeds and wildflowers: dandelions, nettles, daisies, clover and plantain, sentence 13
Ribwort plantain stems can be looped to flick their heads like little guns, and in Ukraine people put plantain leaves on cuts, but a cut is best cleaned with water and covered with a plaster.
Who acts: people · What happens: loop, flick, put, clean, cover · To what, where: plantain stems, heads, plantain leaves, Ukraine, cut
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 (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 | Ribwort | ribwort | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 plantain | compound |
| 2 | plantain | plantain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 stems | compound |
| 3 | stems | stem | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 looped | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 looped | aux |
| 5 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 looped | aux:pass |
| 6 | looped | loop | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 flick | mark |
| 8 | flick | flick | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 looped | advcl |
| 9 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 heads | nmod:poss |
| 10 | heads | head | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 flick | obj |
| 11 | like | like | ADP | _ | 13 guns | case |
| 12 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 guns | amod |
| 13 | guns | gun | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 flick | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 put | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 put | cc |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 Ukraine | case |
| 17 | Ukraine | Ukraine | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 put | obl |
| 18 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 put | nsubj |
| 19 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 looped | conj |
| 20 | plantain | plantain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 leaves | compound |
| 21 | leaves | leaf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 put | obj |
| 22 | on | on | ADP | _ | 23 cuts | case |
| 23 | cuts | cut | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 put | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 cleaned | punct |
| 25 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 30 cleaned | cc |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 cut | det |
| 27 | cut | cut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 cleaned | nsubj:pass |
| 28 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 cleaned | aux:pass |
| 29 | best | well | ADV | Degree=Sup | 30 cleaned | advmod |
| 30 | cleaned | clean | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 looped | conj |
| 31 | with | with | ADP | _ | 32 water | case |
| 32 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 cleaned | obl |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 covered | cc |
| 34 | covered | cover | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 30 cleaned | conj |
| 35 | with | with | ADP | _ | 37 plaster | case |
| 36 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 37 plaster | det |
| 37 | plaster | plaster | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 covered | obl |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 looped | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | loop | can · passive | plantain stems | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 2 | flick | to-infinitive | stems's heads | like little guns | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Theme | ||||
| 3 | put | present | people | plantain leaves | Ukraine | on cuts | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent leaf=Theme on cut=Destination | ||
| 4 | clean | present · passive | a cut | with water; well property | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with water=Instrument | ||||
| 5 | cover | participle | with a plaster | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with plaster=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:13.
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): R2-punct-next ×1, 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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