Nuts, beans, seeds and spices, sentence 14
A coconut has three eyes, but only one is soft, and the baby plant pushes out of it; its thick husk lets it float for months and sprout on far beaches.
Who acts: coconut, one, baby plant, thick husk · What happens: have, be, push out, let, float, sprout · To what, where: three eyes, coconut, far beaches
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 (coconut, one, baby plant, thick husk), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 coconut | det |
| 2 | coconut | coconut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 has | nsubj |
| 3 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 eyes | nummod |
| 5 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 has | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 soft | punct |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 soft | cc |
| 8 | only | only | ADV | _ | 9 one | advmod |
| 9 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 soft | nsubj |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 soft | cop |
| 11 | soft | soft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 has | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 pushes | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 pushes | cc |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 plant | det |
| 15 | baby | baby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 plant | compound |
| 16 | plant | plant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 pushes | nsubj |
| 17 | pushes | push | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 has | conj |
| 18 | out | out | ADP | _ | 20 it | case |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 it | case |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 pushes | obl |
| 21 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 lets | punct |
| 22 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 husk | nmod:poss |
| 23 | thick | thick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 husk | amod |
| 24 | husk | husk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 lets | nsubj |
| 25 | lets | let | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 has | parataxis |
| 26 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 lets | obj |
| 27 | float | float | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 lets | xcomp |
| 28 | for | for | ADP | _ | 29 months | case |
| 29 | months | month | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 float | obl |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 sprout | cc |
| 31 | sprout | sprout | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 float | conj |
| 32 | on | on | ADP | _ | 34 beaches | case |
| 33 | far | far | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 beaches | amod |
| 34 | beaches | beach | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 sprout | obl |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 has | 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 | a coconut | three eyes | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Patient | ||||
| 2 | is | present | one | soft property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | push out | present | the baby plant | coconut | vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 4 | let | present | coconut's thick husk | coconut | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | float | infinitive | coconut not said here | month | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 6 | sprout | infinitive | coconut not said here | far beaches | vn entity_specific_modes_being-47.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on beach=Location |
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: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): R7-rel-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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