Ukraine's plants: sunflowers, viburnum, poppies, lime trees and steppe grasses, sentence 14
Poppies grow in disturbed soil, so they come up on fields and roadsides after digging, and the seed head shakes out seeds through a ring of little holes like a pepper pot.
Who acts: Poppies, soils, seed head · What happens: grow, disturb, come up, dig, shake out · To what, where: disturbed soil, fields, seeds, ring
This is a sentence of the lesson «Ukraine's plants: sunflowers, viburnum, poppies, lime trees and steppe grasses» 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 (Poppies, soils, seed head), 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 | Poppies | poppy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 grow | nsubj |
| 2 | grow | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 soil | case |
| 4 | disturbed | disturb | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 soil | amod |
| 5 | soil | soil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 grow | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 come | punct |
| 7 | so | so | ADV | _ | 9 come | advmod |
| 8 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 come | nsubj |
| 9 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 grow | parataxis |
| 10 | up | up | ADV | _ | 9 come | advmod |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 fields | case |
| 12 | fields | field | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 come | obl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 roadsides | cc |
| 14 | roadsides | roadside | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 fields | conj |
| 15 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 16 digging | mark |
| 16 | digging | dig | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 come | advcl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 shakes | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 shakes | cc |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 head | det |
| 20 | seed | seed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 head | compound |
| 21 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 shakes | nsubj |
| 22 | shakes | shake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 come | conj |
| 23 | out | out | ADP | _ | 22 shakes | compound:prt |
| 24 | seeds | seed | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 shakes | obj |
| 25 | through | through | ADP | _ | 27 ring | case |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 ring | det |
| 27 | ring | ring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 shakes | obl |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 holes | case |
| 29 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 holes | amod |
| 30 | holes | hole | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 ring | nmod |
| 31 | like | like | ADP | _ | 34 pot | case |
| 32 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 34 pot | det |
| 33 | pepper | pepper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 pot | compound |
| 34 | pot | pot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 holes | nmod |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 grow | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | present | Poppies | disturbed soil | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in soil=Location | ||||
| 2 | disturb | participle | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 3 | come up | present | soils = soil | fields and roadsides | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on field=Location | ||||
| 4 | dig | gerund | soils = soil not said here | vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | shake out | present | the seed head | seeds | a ring of little holes like a pepper pot | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent seed=Theme through ring=Trajectory |
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:377-ukraine-s-plants-sunflowers-viburnum-poppies-lime-trees-and-steppe-grasses.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): R1-cc-next ×2, 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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