Ukraine's plants: sunflowers, viburnum, poppies, lime trees and steppe grasses, sentence 2
Young sunflowers turn to follow the sun across the sky, then swing back east at night.
Who acts: Young sunflowers · What happens: turn, follow, swing back · To what, where: sun, sky
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 (Young sunflowers), 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 | Young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 sunflowers | amod |
| 2 | sunflowers | sunflower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 turn | nsubj |
| 3 | turn | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 follow | mark |
| 5 | follow | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 turn | xcomp |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 sun | det |
| 7 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 follow | obj |
| 8 | across | across | ADP | _ | 10 sky | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 sky | det |
| 10 | sky | sky | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 follow | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 swing | punct |
| 12 | then | then | ADV | _ | 13 swing | advmod |
| 13 | swing | swing | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 follow | advcl |
| 14 | back | back | ADV | _ | 13 swing | advmod |
| 15 | east | east | ADV | _ | 13 swing | advmod |
| 16 | at | at | ADP | _ | 17 night | case |
| 17 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 swing | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 turn | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn | present | Young sunflowers | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | follow | to-infinitive | Young sunflowers not said here | the sun | the sky | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent sun=Theme across sky=Trajectory | |||
| 3 | swing back | gerund | Young sunflowers not said here | then; night | east property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
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:2.
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): R6-punct-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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