Weeds and wildflowers: dandelions, nettles, daisies, clover and plantain, sentence 4

Children play with wildflowers everywhere: blowing a dandelion clock to «tell the time», holding a buttercup under a chin to see who likes butter, firing plantain heads like little guns, and hunting for a lucky four-leaf clover.

Who acts: Children · What happens: play, blow, tell, hold, see, like · To what, where: dandelion clock, buttercup, chin, butter, plantain heads · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Children), 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	Children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 play	nsubj
2	play	play	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	with	with	ADP	_	4 wildflowers	case
4	wildflowers	wildflower	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 play	obl
5	everywhere	everywhere	ADV	PronType=Tot	2 play	advmod
6	:	:	PUNCT	_	2 play	punct
7	blowing	blow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 play	advcl
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 clock	det
9	dandelion	dandelion	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 clock	compound
10	clock	clock	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 blowing	obj
11	to	to	PART	_	13 tell	mark
12	«	«	PUNCT	_	13 tell	punct
13	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 blowing	advcl
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 time	det
15	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 tell	obj
16	»	»	PUNCT	_	13 tell	punct
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 holding	punct
18	holding	hold	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 blowing	conj
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 buttercup	det
20	buttercup	buttercup	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 holding	obj
21	under	under	ADP	_	23 chin	case
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 chin	det
23	chin	chin	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 holding	obl
24	to	to	PART	_	25 see	mark
25	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 holding	advcl
26	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 likes	nsubj
27	likes	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 see	ccomp
28	butter	butter	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 likes	obj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 firing	punct
30	firing	fire	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 blowing	conj
31	plantain	plantain	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 heads	compound
32	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 firing	obj
33	like	like	ADP	_	35 guns	case
34	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 guns	amod
35	guns	gun	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 firing	obl
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 hunting	punct
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 hunting	cc
38	hunting	hunt	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	27 likes	conj
39	for	for	ADP	_	45 clover	case
40	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	45 clover	det
41	lucky	lucky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 clover	amod
42	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	44 leaf	nummod
43	-	-	PUNCT	_	42 four	punct
44	leaf	leaf	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 clover	compound
45	clover	clover	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 hunting	obl
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 play	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	play	present	Children				with wildflowers; everywhere property	vn play-114.2-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent with wildflower=Theme
2	blow	gerund	Children not said here	a dandelion clock				vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent clock=Patient
3	tell speech: assert in a quote	to-infinitive	Children not said here			time		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	hold	gerund	Children not said here	a buttercup	a chin			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent buttercup=Theme under chin=Location
5	see	to-infinitive	Children not said here					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
6	like	present		butter				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot butter=Theme
7	fire	gerund	Children not said here	plantain heads			like little guns	vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Theme
8	hunt	gerund					for a lucky leaf clover	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent for clover=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:4.

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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, 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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