Nuts, beans, seeds and spices, sentence 12
Bean and pea plants have lumps on their roots holding bacteria that take nitrogen, a gas in the air that plants need to grow, out of the air, so the soil is richer afterwards and farmers plant beans before wheat.
Who acts: Bean plants, roots, bacteria, plants, gas, soil · What happens: have, hold, take, need, grow, be · To what, where: lumps, roots, bacteria, nitrogen, gas, air
This is a sentence of the lesson «Nuts, beans, seeds and spices» 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 (Bean plants, roots, bacteria, plants), 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 | Bean | bean | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 plants | compound |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 pea | cc |
| 3 | pea | pea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Bean | conj |
| 4 | plants | plant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 have | nsubj |
| 5 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | lumps | lump | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 have | obj |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 roots | case |
| 8 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 roots | nmod:poss |
| 9 | roots | root | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 lumps | nmod |
| 10 | holding | hold | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 roots | acl |
| 11 | bacteria | bacterium | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 holding | obj |
| 12 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 take | nsubj |
| 13 | take | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 bacteria | acl:relcl |
| 14 | nitrogen | nitrogen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 take | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 gas | punct |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 gas | det |
| 17 | gas | gas | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 nitrogen | appos |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 air | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 air | det |
| 20 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 gas | nmod |
| 21 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 need | obj |
| 22 | plants | plant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 need | nsubj |
| 23 | need | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 gas | acl:relcl |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 grow | mark |
| 25 | grow | grow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 need | xcomp |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 air | punct |
| 27 | out | out | ADP | _ | 30 air | case |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 air | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 air | det |
| 30 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 grow | obl |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 richer | punct |
| 32 | so | so | ADV | _ | 36 richer | advmod |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 soil | det |
| 34 | soil | soil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 richer | nsubj |
| 35 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 36 richer | cop |
| 36 | richer | rich | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 40 plant | advcl |
| 37 | afterwards | afterward | ADV | _ | 36 richer | advmod |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 plant | cc |
| 39 | farmers | farmer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 40 plant | nsubj |
| 40 | plant | plant | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 have | conj |
| 41 | beans | bean | NOUN | Number=Plur | 40 plant | obj |
| 42 | before | before | ADP | _ | 43 wheat | case |
| 43 | wheat | wheat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 plant | obl |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 have | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | Bean plants | lumps | plants's roots | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lump=Patient | |||
| 2 | hold | gerund | plants's roots not said here | bacteria | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bacterium=Theme | ||||
| 3 | take | present | bacteria | nitrogen | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nitrogen=Theme | ||||
| 4 | need | present | plants | a gas in the air | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | grow not said to happen | to-infinitive | a gas in the air not said here | the air | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme out air=Location | ||||
| 6 | is | present | the soil | afterward, rich property | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | plant | present | farmers | beans | wheat | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent bean=Theme before wheat=Destination |
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:348-nuts-beans-seeds-and-spices.lesson:12.
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. 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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