Nuts, beans, seeds and spices, sentence 3

A monk called Gregor Mendel grew thousands of pea plants and counted their colours and shapes, and found out how features pass from parents to children.

Who acts: monk, features · What happens: call, grow, count, find out, pass · To what, where: monk, thousands, colours, children · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (monk, features), 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 monk	det
2	monk	monk	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 grew	nsubj
3	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 monk	acl
4	Gregor	Gregor	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 called	xcomp
5	Mendel	Mendel	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Gregor	flat
6	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	thousands	thousand	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 grew	obj
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 plants	case
9	pea	pea	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 plants	compound
10	plants	plant	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 thousands	nmod
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 counted	cc
12	counted	count	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 grew	conj
13	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 colours	nmod:poss
14	colours	colour	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 counted	obj
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 shapes	cc
16	shapes	shape	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 colours	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 found	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 found	cc
19	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 grew	conj
20	out	out	ADP	_	19 found	compound:prt
21	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	23 pass	advmod
22	features	feature	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 pass	nsubj
23	pass	pass	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 found	ccomp
24	from	from	ADP	_	25 parents	case
25	parents	parent	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 pass	obl
26	to	to	ADP	_	27 children	case
27	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 pass	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 grew	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	call	participle		a monk not said here			vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	grow	past	a monk	thousands of pea plants			vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location thousand=Theme
3	count	past	a monk not said here	plants's colours and shapes			vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent colour=Theme
4	find out	past	a monk not said here				vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	pass	present	features		children	from parents	vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme from parent=Initial_Location to child=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:3.

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): no change. 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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