Weeds and wildflowers: dandelions, nettles, daisies, clover and plantain, sentence 9

Peacock and red admiral caterpillars eat nettles, so a nettle patch helps butterflies, and young nettles can be cooked into soup and lose their sting.

Who acts: Peacock admiral caterpillars, nettle patch, nettles · What happens: eat, help, cook, lose, sting · To what, where: nettles, butterflies, young nettles, soup, sting

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 (Peacock admiral caterpillars, nettle patch, nettles), 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	Peacock	peacock	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 caterpillars	compound
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 admiral	cc
3	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 admiral	amod
4	admiral	admiral	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 caterpillars	compound
5	caterpillars	caterpillar	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 eat	nsubj
6	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	nettles	nettle	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 eat	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 helps	punct
9	so	so	ADV	_	13 helps	advmod
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 patch	det
11	nettle	nettle	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 patch	compound
12	patch	patch	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 helps	nsubj
13	helps	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 eat	conj
14	butterflies	butterfly	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 helps	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 cooked	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 cooked	cc
17	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 nettles	amod
18	nettles	nettle	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 cooked	nsubj:pass
19	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 cooked	aux
20	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	21 cooked	aux:pass
21	cooked	cook	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 helps	conj
22	into	into	ADP	_	23 soup	case
23	soup	soup	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 cooked	obl
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 lose	cc
25	lose	lose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 cooked	conj
26	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 sting	nmod:poss
27	sting	sting	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 lose	obj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 eat	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	eat	present	Peacock admiral caterpillars	nettles			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nettle=Patient
2	help	present	a nettle patch		butterflies		vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent butterfly=Beneficiary
3	cook	can · passive		young nettles		into soup result	vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP PP.result»: subject=Patient into soup=Result
4	lose	infinitive		nettles's sting			vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sting=Eventuality
5	sting		nettles = nettle				nom sting «state transitive»: poss=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:9.

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 ×1, 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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