Honey and the beekeeper's year, sentence 19
Honey that turns hard and grainy has crystallised and is not bad; it has so much sugar and so little water that germs cannot grow, and warm water melts the crystals.
Who acts: Honey, germs, warm water · What happens: turn, crystallise, not be, have, not grow, melt · To what, where: much sugar, little water, crystals
This is a sentence of the lesson «Honey and the beekeeper's year» 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 (Honey, germs, warm water), 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 | Honey | honey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 crystallised | nsubj |
| 2 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 3 turns | nsubj |
| 3 | turns | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Honey | acl:relcl |
| 4 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 turns | xcomp |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 grainy | cc |
| 6 | grainy | grainy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 hard | conj |
| 7 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 crystallised | aux |
| 8 | crystallised | crystallise | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 bad | cc |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 bad | cop |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 bad | advmod |
| 12 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 crystallised | conj |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 has | punct |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 has | nsubj |
| 15 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 crystallised | parataxis |
| 16 | so | so | ADV | _ | 17 much | advmod |
| 17 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 sugar | amod |
| 18 | sugar | sugar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 has | obj |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 water | cc |
| 20 | so | so | ADV | _ | 21 little | advmod |
| 21 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 water | amod |
| 22 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 sugar | conj |
| 23 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 27 grow | mark |
| 24 | germs | germ | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 grow | nsubj |
| 25 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 27 grow | aux |
| 26 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 27 grow | advmod |
| 27 | grow | grow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 water | acl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 melts | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 melts | cc |
| 30 | warm | warm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 water | amod |
| 31 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 melts | nsubj |
| 32 | melts | melt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 has | conj |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 crystals | det |
| 34 | crystals | crystal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 melts | obj |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 crystallised | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- pos
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn | present | Honey | hard property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | crystallise | present · perfect | Honey | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | not is | present | Honey not said here | bad property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | have | present | honey | much sugar and little water | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sugar=Patient | ||||
| 5 | not grow | can | germs | little water not said here | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location water=Theme | ||||
| 6 | melt | present | warm water | the crystals | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient crystal=Result |
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:344-honey-and-the-beekeepers-year.lesson:19.
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, 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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