Ukraine's plants: sunflowers, viburnum, poppies, lime trees and steppe grasses, sentence 7

Each sunflower head is hundreds or over a thousand tiny flowers, and its seeds sit in spirals that, counted one way and the other, often give 34 and 55, numbers from a famous number pattern.

Who acts: sunflower head, seeds, spirals · What happens: be, sit, count, give · To what, where: hundreds, spirals, one way, 34

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 (sunflower head, seeds, spirals), 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	Each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	3 head	det
2	sunflower	sunflower	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 head	compound
3	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 hundreds	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 hundreds	cop
5	hundreds	hundred	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
6	or	or	CCONJ	_	11 flowers	cc
7	over	over	ADV	_	9 thousand	advmod
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 thousand	det
9	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 flowers	nummod
10	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 flowers	amod
11	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 hundreds	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 sit	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 sit	cc
14	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 seeds	nmod:poss
15	seeds	seed	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 sit	nsubj
16	sit	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 hundreds	conj
17	in	in	ADP	_	18 spirals	case
18	spirals	spiral	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 sit	obl
19	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	29 give	nsubj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 that	punct
21	counted	count	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	29 give	advcl
22	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	23 way	nummod
23	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 counted	obl
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 other	cc
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 other	det
26	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 way	conj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 hundreds	punct
28	often	often	ADV	_	29 give	advmod
29	give	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 spirals	acl:relcl
30	34	34	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	29 give	obj
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 55	cc
32	55	55	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	30 34	conj
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 numbers	punct
34	numbers	number	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 give	obj
35	from	from	ADP	_	39 pattern	case
36	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	39 pattern	det
37	famous	famous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 pattern	amod
38	number	number	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 pattern	compound
39	pattern	pattern	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 numbers	nmod
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 hundreds	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	present	each sunflower head	hundreds or thousand tiny flowers			tree rules
2	sit	present	head's seeds		spirals		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in spiral=Location
3	count	participle	spirals not said here	one way			vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus
4	give	present	spirals	34		often property	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent 34=Recipient number=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:7.

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 ×3, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, 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.

See the release 0.4.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/377-ukraine-s-plants-sunflowers-viburnum-poppies-lime-trees-and-steppe-grasses/7/