A year on a farm: lambing, haymaking, harvest and winter feeding, sentence 4
Make hay while the sun shines, because wet hay goes mouldy.
Who acts: you, sun, wet hay · What happens: make, shine, go · To what, where: hay
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 (you, sun, wet 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 | Make | make | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | hay | hay | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Make | obj |
| 3 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 6 shines | mark |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 sun | det |
| 5 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 shines | nsubj |
| 6 | shines | shine | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Make | advcl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 goes | punct |
| 8 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 11 goes | mark |
| 9 | wet | wet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 hay | amod |
| 10 | hay | hay | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 goes | nsubj |
| 11 | goes | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Make | advcl |
| 12 | mouldy | mouldy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 goes | xcomp |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Make | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | imperative | you not said here | hay | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset hay=Product | ||||
| 2 | shine | present | the sun | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | go | present | wet hay | mouldy property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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:4.
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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