Weeds and wildflowers: dandelions, nettles, daisies, clover and plantain, sentence 6

Each dandelion seed hangs from a tiny parachute, a dandelion clock holds about 150 to 200 seeds, and blowing it does not tell the time.

Who acts: dandelion seed, dandelion clock · What happens: hang, hold, blow, not tell · To what, where: tiny parachute, 150 seeds, clock · 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 (dandelion seed, dandelion clock), 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	Each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	3 seed	det
2	dandelion	dandelion	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 seed	compound
3	seed	seed	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hangs	nsubj
4	hangs	hang	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	from	from	ADP	_	8 parachute	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 parachute	det
7	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 parachute	amod
8	parachute	parachute	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hangs	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 holds	punct
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 clock	det
11	dandelion	dandelion	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 clock	compound
12	clock	clock	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 holds	nsubj
13	holds	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 hangs	conj
14	about	about	ADV	_	15 150	advmod
15	150	150	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	18 seeds	nummod
16	to	to	ADP	_	17 200	case
17	200	200	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	15 150	nmod
18	seeds	seed	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 holds	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 blowing	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 blowing	cc
21	blowing	blow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 holds	parataxis
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 blowing	obj
23	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 tell	aux
24	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	25 tell	advmod
25	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 blowing	advcl
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 time	det
27	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 tell	obj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 hangs	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	hang	present	each dandelion seed		a tiny parachute		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	hold	present	a dandelion clock	150 seeds			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent seed=Theme
3	blow	gerund		clock			vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent it=Patient
4	not tell speech: assert	present · do-support				time	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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:6.

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, 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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