Rice, maize and potatoes: the plants that feed the world, sentence 4

Peel back the husk and each long silky thread leads to one kernel; pollen from the feathery tassel on top must land on that silk or the kernel never grows.

Who acts: you, long silky thread, pollen · What happens: peel back, lead, land, not grow · To what, where: husk, silk

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 (you, long silky thread, 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	Peel	peel	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	back	back	ADV	_	1 Peel	advmod
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 husk	det
4	husk	husk	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Peel	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 leads	cc
6	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	9 thread	det
7	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 thread	amod
8	silky	silky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 thread	amod
9	thread	thread	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 leads	nsubj
10	leads	lead	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Peel	conj
11	to	to	ADP	_	13 kernel	case
12	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 kernel	nummod
13	kernel	kernel	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 leads	obl
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 pollen	punct
15	pollen	pollen	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 land	nsubj
16	from	from	ADP	_	19 tassel	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 tassel	det
18	feathery	feathery	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 tassel	amod
19	tassel	tassel	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 pollen	nmod
20	on	on	ADP	_	21 top	case
21	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 tassel	nmod
22	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 land	aux
23	land	land	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Peel	parataxis
24	on	on	ADP	_	26 silk	case
25	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	26 silk	det
26	silk	silk	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 land	obl
27	or	or	CCONJ	_	29 kernel	cc
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 kernel	det
29	kernel	kernel	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 silk	conj
30	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	31 grows	advmod
31	grows	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 land	conj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Peel	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	peel back	imperative	you not said here	the husk			vn pit-10.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent husk=Source
2	lead	present	each long silky thread			to one kernel	vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition to kernel=Patient
3	land	must	pollen from the feathery tassel on top		that silk or the kernel		vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme on silk=Destination
4	not grow	present	pollen from the feathery tassel on top not said here				vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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:4.

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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2. 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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