Weeds and wildflowers: dandelions, nettles, daisies, clover and plantain, sentence 5

Most of these games prove nothing, but the plants behind them are clever: parachute seeds, shiny petals, stings for defence, and roots that make their own fertiliser from the air.

Who acts: Most, plants, roots · What happens: prove, be, make · To what, where: nothing, own fertiliser, air

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 (Most, plants, roots), 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	Most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	5 prove	nsubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	4 games	case
3	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	4 games	det
4	games	game	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Most	nmod
5	prove	prove	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	5 prove	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 clever	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 clever	cc
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 plants	det
10	plants	plant	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 clever	nsubj
11	behind	behind	ADP	_	12 them	case
12	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 plants	nmod
13	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 clever	cop
14	clever	clever	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 prove	conj
15	:	:	PUNCT	_	17 seeds	punct
16	parachute	parachute	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 seeds	compound
17	seeds	seed	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 clever	parataxis
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 petals	punct
19	shiny	shiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 petals	amod
20	petals	petal	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 seeds	conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 stings	punct
22	stings	sting	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 seeds	conj
23	for	for	ADP	_	24 defence	case
24	defence	defence	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 stings	nmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 roots	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 roots	cc
27	roots	root	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 seeds	conj
28	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	29 make	nsubj
29	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 roots	acl:relcl
30	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 fertiliser	nmod:poss
31	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 fertiliser	amod
32	fertiliser	fertiliser	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 make	obj
33	from	from	ADP	_	35 air	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 air	det
35	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 make	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 prove	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	prove	present	Most of this games	nothing			vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Theme
2	is	present	the plants behind games			clever property	tree rules
3	make	present	roots	roots's own fertiliser	the air		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V PP»: agent=Asset fertiliser=Product from air=Material

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:5.

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): R1-cc-next ×2, R5-strong ×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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