Rice, maize and potatoes: the plants that feed the world, sentence 17
Maize now grows on every continent except Antarctica, and much of it feeds farm animals.
Who acts: Maize, much · What happens: grow, feed · To what, where: continent, farm animals
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 (Maize, much), 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 | Maize | maize | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 grows | nsubj |
| 2 | now | now | ADV | _ | 3 grows | advmod |
| 3 | grows | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 continent | case |
| 5 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 continent | det |
| 6 | continent | continent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 grows | obl |
| 7 | except | except | ADP | _ | 8 Antarctica | case |
| 8 | Antarctica | Antarctica | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 continent | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 feeds | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 feeds | cc |
| 11 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 feeds | nsubj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 it | case |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 much | nmod |
| 14 | feeds | feed | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 grows | conj |
| 15 | farm | farm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 animals | compound |
| 16 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 feeds | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 grows | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | present | Maize | every continent except Antarctica | now | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on continent=Location | |||
| 2 | feed | present | much of continent | farm animals | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent animal=Recipient |
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:17.
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, 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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