A year on a farm: lambing, haymaking, harvest and winter feeding, sentence 14
Straw is the dry stalks left after grain is harvested and is used for bedding, while hay is dried grass used as food; straw has very little food value.
Who acts: Straw, hay · What happens: be, leave, harvest, use, dry, have · To what, where: dry stalks, grain, dried grass, little food value
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 (Straw, hay), 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 | Straw | straw | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 stalks | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 stalks | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 stalks | det |
| 4 | dry | dry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 stalks | amod |
| 5 | stalks | stalk | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 6 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 stalks | acl |
| 7 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 10 harvested | mark |
| 8 | grain | grain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 harvested | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 harvested | aux:pass |
| 10 | harvested | harvest | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 left | advcl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 used | cc |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 used | aux:pass |
| 13 | used | use | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 harvested | conj |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 bedding | case |
| 15 | bedding | bedding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 used | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 dried | punct |
| 17 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 21 grass | mark |
| 18 | hay | hay | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 grass | nsubj |
| 19 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 grass | cop |
| 20 | dried | dry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 grass | amod |
| 21 | grass | grass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 used | advcl |
| 22 | used | use | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 grass | acl |
| 23 | as | as | ADP | _ | 24 food | case |
| 24 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 used | obl |
| 25 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 27 has | punct |
| 26 | straw | straw | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 has | nsubj |
| 27 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 stalks | parataxis |
| 28 | very | very | ADV | _ | 29 little | advmod |
| 29 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 value | amod |
| 30 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 value | compound |
| 31 | value | value | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 has | obj |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 stalks | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Straw | the dry stalks | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | leave | participle | the dry stalks not said here | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | harvest | present · passive | grain | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | use | present · passive | for bedding | vn eat-39.1 «NP V» | |||||
| 5 | dry | participle | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 6 | is a | present | hay | dried grass | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | use | participle | dried grass not said here | as food | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 8 | have | present | straw | little food value | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent value=Patient |
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: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): R5-strong ×1, 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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