A year on a farm: lambing, haymaking, harvest and winter feeding, sentence 13

Silage is grass wrapped up airtight so bacteria turn its sugars into acid and pickle it, keeping it fresh for months, and cows love it.

Who acts: Silage, bacteria, cows · What happens: be, wrap up, turn, keep, love · To what, where: grass, sugars, acid

This is a sentence of the lesson «A year on a farm: lambing, haymaking, harvest and winter feeding» 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 (Silage, bacteria, cows), 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	Silage	silage	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 grass	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 grass	cop
3	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	wrapped	wrap	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 grass	acl
5	up	up	ADP	_	4 wrapped	compound:prt
6	airtight	airtight	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 wrapped	xcomp
7	so	so	ADV	_	9 turn	advmod
8	bacteria	bacterium	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 turn	nsubj
9	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 grass	advcl
10	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 sugars	nmod:poss
11	sugars	sugar	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 turn	obj
12	into	into	ADP	_	13 acid	case
13	acid	acid	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 turn	obl
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 pickle	cc
15	pickle	pickle	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 turn	conj
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 pickle	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 keeping	punct
18	keeping	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 turn	advcl
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 keeping	obj
20	fresh	fresh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 keeping	xcomp
21	for	for	ADP	_	22 months	case
22	months	month	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 keeping	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 love	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 love	cc
25	cows	cow	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 love	nsubj
26	love	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 keeping	parataxis
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 love	obj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 grass	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Silage	grass				tree rules
2	wrap up	participle		grass not said here			airtight property	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme
3	turn	infinitive	bacteria	grass's sugars	acid			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent sugar=Theme into acid=Trajectory
4	keep	gerund	bacteria not said here	grass		month	fresh property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
5	love	present	cows	grass				vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus

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:349-a-year-on-a-farm-lambing-haymaking-harvest-and-winter-feeding.lesson:13.

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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×3, R7-rel-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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