Weeds and wildflowers: dandelions, nettles, daisies, clover and plantain, sentence 7

The name dandelion comes from French words meaning «lion's tooth», because the leaves have jagged teeth, and dandelion flowers close at night and in rain.

Who acts: name dandelion, French words, leaves, dandelion flowers · What happens: come, mean, have, close · To what, where: French words, tooth, jagged teeth

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 (name dandelion, French words, leaves, dandelion flowers), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 dandelion	det
2	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 dandelion	compound
3	dandelion	dandelion	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 comes	nsubj
4	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	from	from	ADP	_	7 words	case
6	French	French	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 words	amod
7	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 comes	obl
8	meaning	mean	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 words	acl
9	«	«	PUNCT	_	12 tooth	punct
10	lion	lion	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 tooth	nmod:poss
11	's	's	PART	_	10 lion	case
12	tooth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 meaning	obj
13	»	»	PUNCT	_	12 tooth	punct
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 jagged	punct
15	because	because	SCONJ	_	18 have	mark
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 leaves	det
17	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 have	nsubj
18	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 comes	advcl
19	jagged	jagged	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 teeth	amod
20	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 have	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 close	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 close	cc
23	dandelion	dandelion	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 flowers	compound
24	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 close	nsubj
25	close	close	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 have	conj
26	at	at	ADP	_	27 night	case
27	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 close	obl
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 rain	cc
29	in	in	ADP	_	30 rain	case
30	rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 night	conj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 comes	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	come	present	the name dandelion		French words		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from word=Initial_Location
2	mean	gerund	French words not said here	lion's tooth			vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tooth=Topic
3	have	present	the leaves	jagged teeth			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tooth=Patient
4	close	present	dandelion flowers			night	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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:7.

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): R6-punct-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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