Weeds and wildflowers: dandelions, nettles, daisies, clover and plantain, sentence 14

A weed is just a plant growing where people do not want it; many weeds feed bees and other insects, and dandelions are among the first food for bees in spring.

Who acts: weed, plant, people, many weeds, dandelions · What happens: be, grow, not want, feed · To what, where: plant, weed, bees

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, people, many weeds), 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 plant	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 plant	cop
4	just	just	ADV	_	6 plant	advmod
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 plant	det
6	plant	plant	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	growing	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 plant	acl
8	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	12 want	advmod
9	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 want	nsubj
10	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 want	aux
11	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 want	advmod
12	want	want	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 growing	advcl
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 want	obj
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 feed	punct
15	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 weeds	amod
16	weeds	weed	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 feed	nsubj
17	feed	feed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 plant	parataxis
18	bees	bee	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 feed	obj
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 insects	cc
20	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 insects	amod
21	insects	insect	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 bees	conj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 food	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 food	cc
24	dandelions	dandelion	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 food	nsubj
25	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 food	cop
26	among	among	ADP	_	29 food	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 food	det
28	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	29 food	amod
29	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 plant	conj
30	for	for	ADP	_	31 bees	case
31	bees	bee	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 food	nmod
32	in	in	ADP	_	33 spring	case
33	spring	spring	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 bees	nmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 plant	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present	a weed	a plant and the first food			tree rules
2	grow	gerund	a plant and the first food not said here				vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	not want	present · do-support	people	weed			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot it=Theme
4	feed	present	many weeds		bees and other insects		vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bee=Recipient
5	is	present	dandelions			among the first food; for bees in spring	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:340-weeds-and-wildflowers-dandelions-nettles-daisies-clover-and-plantain.lesson:14.

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 ×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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