Weeds and wildflowers: dandelions, nettles, daisies, clover and plantain, sentence 15
A buttercup held under the chin makes a yellow glow because a shiny layer in its petals reflects light; everyone's chin glows, so it proves nothing about liking butter.
Who acts: buttercup, shiny layer, chin · What happens: hold, make, reflect, glow, prove, like · To what, where: buttercup, chin, yellow glow, light, nothing, butter
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 (buttercup, shiny layer, chin), 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 buttercup | det |
| 2 | buttercup | buttercup | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 makes | nsubj |
| 3 | held | hold | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 buttercup | acl |
| 4 | under | under | ADP | _ | 6 chin | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 chin | det |
| 6 | chin | chin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 held | obl |
| 7 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 glow | det |
| 9 | yellow | yellow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 glow | amod |
| 10 | glow | glow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 makes | obj |
| 11 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 18 reflects | mark |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 layer | det |
| 13 | shiny | shiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 layer | amod |
| 14 | layer | layer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 reflects | nsubj |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 petals | case |
| 16 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 petals | nmod:poss |
| 17 | petals | petal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 layer | nmod |
| 18 | reflects | reflect | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 makes | advcl |
| 19 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 reflects | obj |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 glows | punct |
| 21 | everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 23 chin | nmod:poss |
| 22 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 21 everyone | case |
| 23 | chin | chin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 glows | nsubj |
| 24 | glows | glow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 makes | parataxis |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 proves | punct |
| 26 | so | so | ADV | _ | 28 proves | advmod |
| 27 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 proves | nsubj |
| 28 | proves | prove | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 makes | conj |
| 29 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 28 proves | obj |
| 30 | about | about | SCONJ | _ | 31 liking | mark |
| 31 | liking | like | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 29 nothing | acl |
| 32 | butter | butter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 liking | obj |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 makes | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=assert
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hold | participle | a buttercup not said here | the chin | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme under chin=Location | ||||
| 2 | make | present | a buttercup | a yellow glow | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset glow=Product | ||||
| 3 | reflect | present | a shiny layer in layer's petals | light | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | glow | present | everyone's chin | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | prove | present | chin | nothing | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Theme | ||||
| 6 | like | gerund | butter | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot butter=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:15.
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 ×3. 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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