Rice, maize and potatoes: the plants that feed the world, sentence 15

Each silk thread on a maize cob is joined to one kernel, and pollen from the tassel must land on the silk for that kernel to grow; maize is planted in blocks so pollen reaches plenty of silk.

Who acts: pollen · What happens: join, land, grow, plant, reach · To what, where: silk thread, silk, maize, blocks, plenty

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 (pollen), 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 thread	det
2	silk	silk	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 thread	compound
3	thread	thread	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 joined	nsubj:pass
4	on	on	ADP	_	7 cob	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 cob	det
6	maize	maize	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 cob	compound
7	cob	cob	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 thread	nmod
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 joined	aux:pass
9	joined	join	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
10	to	to	ADP	_	12 kernel	case
11	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 kernel	nummod
12	kernel	kernel	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 joined	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 pollen	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 pollen	cc
15	pollen	pollen	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 kernel	conj
16	from	from	ADP	_	18 tassel	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 tassel	det
18	tassel	tassel	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 pollen	nmod
19	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 land	aux
20	land	land	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 joined	conj
21	on	on	ADP	_	23 silk	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 silk	det
23	silk	silk	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 land	obl
24	for	for	ADP	_	26 kernel	case
25	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	26 kernel	det
26	kernel	kernel	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 silk	nmod
27	to	to	PART	_	28 grow	mark
28	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 land	advcl
29	;	;	PUNCT	_	32 planted	punct
30	maize	maize	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 planted	nsubj:pass
31	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 planted	aux:pass
32	planted	plant	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	37 reaches	advcl
33	in	in	ADP	_	34 blocks	case
34	blocks	block	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 planted	obl
35	so	so	ADV	_	37 reaches	advmod
36	pollen	pollen	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 reaches	nsubj
37	reaches	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 land	advcl
38	plenty	plenty	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 reaches	obj
39	of	of	ADP	_	40 silk	case
40	silk	silk	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 plenty	nmod
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 joined	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	join	present · passive		each silk thread on a maize cob		to one kernel and pollen from the tassel	vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: subject=Patient to kernel=Co-Patient
2	land	must			the silk for that kernel		vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme on silk=Destination
3	grow	to-infinitive					vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	plant	present · passive		maize	blocks		vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in block=Destination
5	reach	present	pollen	plenty of silk			vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent plenty=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:15.

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. 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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