Weeds and wildflowers: dandelions, nettles, daisies, clover and plantain, sentence 2
Run through the long grass in shorts and the nettles bite back: their hairs are tiny brittle needles that snap and push stinging chemicals into your skin.
Who acts: you, nettles, hairs, tiny brittle needles · What happens: run, bite back, be, snap, push, sting · To what, where: long grass, tiny brittle needles, stinging chemicals, skin
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 (you, nettles, hairs, tiny brittle needles), 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 | Run | run | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | through | through | ADP | _ | 5 grass | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 grass | det |
| 4 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 grass | amod |
| 5 | grass | grass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Run | obl |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 shorts | case |
| 7 | shorts | short | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Run | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 bite | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 nettles | det |
| 10 | nettles | nettle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 bite | nsubj |
| 11 | bite | bite | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Run | conj |
| 12 | back | back | ADV | _ | 11 bite | advmod |
| 13 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 15 hairs | punct |
| 14 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 hairs | nmod:poss |
| 15 | hairs | hair | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 needles | nsubj |
| 16 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 needles | cop |
| 17 | tiny | tiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 needles | amod |
| 18 | brittle | brittle | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 needles | amod |
| 19 | needles | needle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 bite | parataxis |
| 20 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 snap | nsubj |
| 21 | snap | snap | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 needles | acl:relcl |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 push | cc |
| 23 | push | push | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 snap | conj |
| 24 | stinging | sting | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 25 chemicals | amod |
| 25 | chemicals | chemical | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 push | obj |
| 26 | into | into | ADP | _ | 28 skin | case |
| 27 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 skin | nmod:poss |
| 28 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 push | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Run | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run | imperative | you not said here | the long grass | in shorts | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through grass=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | bite back | present | the nettles | vn swat-18.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is a | present | nettles's hairs | tiny brittle needles | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | snap | present | tiny brittle needles | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | push | present | tiny brittle needles not said here | stinging chemicals | your skin | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent chemical=Theme into skin=Destination | |||
| 6 | sting | gerund | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
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:2.
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, R8-pos-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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