Ukraine's plants: sunflowers, viburnum, poppies, lime trees and steppe grasses, sentence 19
Schrenk's tulip grows wild in southern Ukraine and is a wild relative of garden tulips; it flowers early in spring before grass grows tall and summer dries everything, then hides as a bulb.
Who acts: tulip, relative, grass, summer · What happens: grow, be, flower, dry, hide · To what, where: southern Ukraine, wild relative, everything
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 (tulip, relative, grass, summer), 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 | Schrenk | Schrenk | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 tulip | nmod:poss |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 Schrenk | case |
| 3 | tulip | tulip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 grows | nsubj |
| 4 | grows | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 grows | xcomp |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 Ukraine | case |
| 7 | southern | southern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 Ukraine | amod |
| 8 | Ukraine | Ukraine | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 grows | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 relative | cc |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 relative | cop |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 relative | det |
| 12 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 relative | amod |
| 13 | relative | relative | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 Ukraine | conj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 tulips | case |
| 15 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 tulips | compound |
| 16 | tulips | tulip | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 relative | nmod |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 flowers | punct |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 flowers | nsubj |
| 19 | flowers | flower | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 grows | parataxis |
| 20 | early | early | ADV | Degree=Pos | 19 flowers | advmod |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 spring | case |
| 22 | spring | spring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 flowers | obl |
| 23 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 25 grows | mark |
| 24 | grass | grass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 grows | nsubj |
| 25 | grows | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 flowers | advcl |
| 26 | tall | tall | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 grows | xcomp |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 dries | cc |
| 28 | summer | summer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 dries | nsubj |
| 29 | dries | dry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 grows | conj |
| 30 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 29 dries | obj |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 hides | punct |
| 32 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 33 hides | advmod |
| 33 | hides | hide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 grows | conj |
| 34 | as | as | ADP | _ | 36 bulb | case |
| 35 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 36 bulb | det |
| 36 | bulb | bulb | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 hides | obl |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 grows | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | present | Schrenk's tulip | southern Ukraine and a wild relative | wild property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in ukraine=Location | |||
| 2 | is a | present | Schrenk's tulip not said here | a wild relative | of garden tulips | tree rules | |||
| 3 | flower | present | relative | spring | early property | vn entity_specific_modes_being-47.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 4 | grow | present | grass | tall property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | dry | present | summer | everything | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient everything=Result | ||||
| 6 | hide | present | Schrenk's tulip not said here | then | as a bulb | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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:19.
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. 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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