Ukraine's plants: sunflowers, viburnum, poppies, lime trees and steppe grasses, sentence 9
Young sunflowers follow the sun from east to west by day and swing back east at night; open flowers mostly face east, warm faster in the morning and get more bee visits, scientists found.
Who acts: Young sunflowers, open flowers, scientists · What happens: follow, swing back, face, warm, get, find · To what, where: sun, east, more bee visits
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, open flowers, scientists), 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 follow | nsubj |
| 3 | follow | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 sun | det |
| 5 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 follow | obj |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 east | case |
| 7 | east | east | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 follow | obl |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 west | case |
| 9 | west | west | ADV | _ | 7 east | advmod |
| 10 | by | by | ADP | _ | 11 day | case |
| 11 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 follow | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 swing | cc |
| 13 | swing | swing | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 follow | conj |
| 14 | back | back | ADV | _ | 15 east | 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 | _ | 22 face | punct |
| 19 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 flowers | amod |
| 20 | flowers | flower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 face | nsubj |
| 21 | mostly | mostly | ADV | _ | 22 face | advmod |
| 22 | face | face | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 follow | parataxis |
| 23 | east | east | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 face | obj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 warm | punct |
| 25 | warm | warm | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 face | conj |
| 26 | faster | fast | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 25 warm | advmod |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 morning | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 morning | det |
| 29 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 warm | obl |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 get | cc |
| 31 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 face | conj |
| 32 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 34 visits | amod |
| 33 | bee | bee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 visits | compound |
| 34 | visits | visit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 get | obj |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 scientists | punct |
| 36 | scientists | scientist | NOUN | Number=Plur | 37 found | nsubj |
| 37 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 follow | parataxis |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 37 found | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow | present | Young sunflowers | the sun | east | day | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent sun=Theme from east=Trajectory | ||
| 2 | swing back | present | Young sunflowers not said here | night | east property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||
| 3 | face | present | open flowers | east | mostly property | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme east=Destination | |||
| 4 | warm | infinitive | open flowers not said here | morning | fast property | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||
| 5 | get | infinitive | open flowers not said here | more bee visits | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer visit=Stimulus | ||||
| 6 | find | past | scientists | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: 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:9.
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, R8-pos-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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