Ukraine's plants: sunflowers, viburnum, poppies, lime trees and steppe grasses, sentence 17

Feather grass, kovyl, has seeds with long feathery tails that twist when dry and untwist when damp, slowly screwing the seed into the soil; its sharp seeds can stick in dogs' ears, so check pets after walks.

Who acts: Feather grass, long feathery tails, sharp seeds · What happens: have, twist, untwist, screw, stick, check · To what, where: seeds, seed, soil, ears, pets

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 (Feather grass, long feathery tails, sharp seeds), 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	Feather	feather	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 grass	compound
2	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 has	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 kovyl	punct
4	kovyl	kovyl	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 grass	appos
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 grass	punct
6	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	seeds	seed	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 has	obj
8	with	with	ADP	_	11 tails	case
9	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 tails	amod
10	feathery	feathery	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 tails	amod
11	tails	tail	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 seeds	nmod
12	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 twist	nsubj
13	twist	twist	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 tails	acl:relcl
14	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	15 dry	advmod
15	dry	dry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 twist	advcl
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 untwist	cc
17	untwist	untwist	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 dry	conj
18	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	19 damp	advmod
19	damp	damp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 untwist	ccomp
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 screwing	punct
21	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	22 screwing	advmod
22	screwing	screw	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 has	advcl
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 seed	det
24	seed	seed	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 screwing	obj
25	into	into	ADP	_	27 soil	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 soil	det
27	soil	soil	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 screwing	obl
28	;	;	PUNCT	_	33 stick	punct
29	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 seeds	nmod:poss
30	sharp	sharp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 seeds	amod
31	seeds	seed	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 stick	nsubj
32	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 stick	aux
33	stick	stick	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 has	parataxis
34	in	in	ADP	_	37 ears	case
35	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 ears	nmod:poss
36	'	's	PART	_	35 dogs	case
37	ears	ear	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 stick	obl
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 check	punct
39	so	so	ADV	_	40 check	advmod
40	check	check	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	33 stick	parataxis
41	pets	pet	NOUN	Number=Plur	40 check	obj
42	after	after	ADP	_	43 walks	case
43	walks	walk	NOUN	Number=Plur	40 check	obl
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 has	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	Feather grass	seeds			with long feathery tails	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent seed=Patient
2	twist	present	long feathery tails					vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
3	untwist	infinitive	long feathery tails not said here					tree rules
4	screw	gerund	Feather grass not said here	the seed	the soil		slowly property	vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent seed=Patient
5	stick	can	seed's sharp seeds		dogs's ears			vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme in ear=Destination
6	check	infinitive		pets		after walks		vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pet=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:377-ukraine-s-plants-sunflowers-viburnum-poppies-lime-trees-and-steppe-grasses.lesson:17.

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 ×2. 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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