Rice, maize and potatoes: the plants that feed the world, sentence 14

Corn cobs nearly always have an even number of rows, often 12 to 20, because the kernels grow in pairs, and one cob carries about 500 to 800 kernels.

Who acts: Corn cobs, kernels, one cob · What happens: have, grow, carry · To what, where: even number, pairs, 500 kernels

This is a sentence of the lesson «Rice, maize and potatoes: the plants that feed the world» 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 (Corn cobs, kernels, one cob), 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	Corn	corn	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 cobs	compound
2	cobs	cob	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 have	nsubj
3	nearly	nearly	ADV	_	4 always	advmod
4	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	5 have	advmod
5	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 number	det
7	even	even	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 number	amod
8	number	number	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 have	obj
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 rows	case
10	rows	row	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 number	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 12	punct
12	often	often	ADV	_	13 12	advmod
13	12	12	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	10 rows	appos
14	to	to	ADP	_	15 20	case
15	20	20	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	13 12	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 grow	punct
17	because	because	SCONJ	_	20 grow	mark
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 kernels	det
19	kernels	kernel	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 grow	nsubj
20	grow	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 have	advcl
21	in	in	ADP	_	22 pairs	case
22	pairs	pair	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 grow	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 carries	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 carries	cc
25	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	26 cob	nummod
26	cob	cob	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 carries	nsubj
27	carries	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 have	conj
28	about	about	ADV	_	29 500	advmod
29	500	500	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	32 kernels	nummod
30	to	to	ADP	_	31 800	case
31	800	800	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	29 500	nmod
32	kernels	kernel	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 carries	obj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 have	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	present	Corn cobs	a even number of rows		always property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent number=Patient
2	grow	present	the kernels		pairs		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in pair=Location
3	carry	present	one cob	500 kernels			vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kernel=Theme

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:345-rice-maize-and-potatoes-the-plants-that-feed-the-world.lesson:14.

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 ×3, R8-pos-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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