Ukraine's plants: sunflowers, viburnum, poppies, lime trees and steppe grasses, sentence 4
Some plants become symbols because people see them every day near home: kalyna with red winter berries, sung about in Oi u luzi chervona kalyna, and the red poppy with a black centre for remembering the dead of the Second World War.
Who acts: plants, people, black centre · What happens: become, see, sing, remember · To what, where: symbols, plants, home, kalyna, dead
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 (plants, people, black centre), 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 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 2 plants | det |
| 2 | plants | plant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 become | nsubj |
| 3 | become | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | symbols | symbol | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 become | xcomp |
| 5 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 7 see | mark |
| 6 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 see | nsubj |
| 7 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 become | advcl |
| 8 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 see | obj |
| 9 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 day | det |
| 10 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 see | obl:unmarked |
| 11 | near | near | ADP | _ | 12 home | case |
| 12 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 see | obl |
| 13 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 14 kalyna | punct |
| 14 | kalyna | kalyna | NOUN | Foreign=Yes | 4 symbols | appos |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 berries | case |
| 16 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 berries | amod |
| 17 | winter | winter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 berries | compound |
| 18 | berries | berry | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 kalyna | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 sung | punct |
| 20 | sung | sing | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 kalyna | acl |
| 21 | about | about | ADP | _ | 23 Oi | case |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 Oi | case |
| 23 | Oi | Oi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 sung | obl |
| 24 | u | u | X | _ | 23 Oi | flat:foreign |
| 25 | luzi | luzi | X | Foreign=Yes | 23 Oi | flat:foreign |
| 26 | chervona | chervona | X | Foreign=Yes | 23 Oi | flat:foreign |
| 27 | kalyna | kalyna | X | Foreign=Yes | 23 Oi | flat:foreign |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 poppy | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 poppy | cc |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 poppy | det |
| 31 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 poppy | amod |
| 32 | poppy | poppy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 kalyna | conj |
| 33 | with | with | ADP | _ | 36 centre | case |
| 34 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 36 centre | det |
| 35 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 centre | amod |
| 36 | centre | centre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 poppy | nmod |
| 37 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 38 remembering | mark |
| 38 | remembering | remember | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 36 centre | acl |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 dead | det |
| 40 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 remembering | obj |
| 41 | of | of | ADP | _ | 45 War | case |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 45 War | det |
| 43 | Second | Second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 45 War | amod |
| 44 | World | World | PROPN | Number=Sing | 45 War | compound |
| 45 | War | War | PROPN | Number=Sing | 40 dead | nmod |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 become | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | become | present | some plants | symbols | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | see | present | people | plants = plant | home | day | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus | ||
| 3 | sing speech: express | participle | kalyna with red winter berries and the red poppy with a black centre not said here | about Oi | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme about oi=Location | ||||
| 4 | remember | gerund | a black centre not said here | the dead of the Second World War | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent dead=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: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): R8-pos-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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