China's plants: bamboo, ginkgo, lotus, tea and rice paddies, sentence 12
The ginkgo is a living fossil, its family going back about 200 million years, and it has no close living relatives; its name biloba means two lobes, after the split leaf.
Who acts: ginkgo, family, name · What happens: be, go back, have, mean, split, name · To what, where: living fossil, close living relatives, two lobes
This is a sentence of the lesson «China's plants: bamboo, ginkgo, lotus, tea and rice paddies» 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 (ginkgo, family, name), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 ginkgo | det |
| 2 | ginkgo | ginkgo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 fossil | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 fossil | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 fossil | det |
| 5 | living | living | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 fossil | compound |
| 6 | fossil | fossil | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 family | punct |
| 8 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 family | nmod:poss |
| 9 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 fossil | appos |
| 10 | going | go | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 family | acl |
| 11 | back | back | ADV | _ | 10 going | advmod |
| 12 | about | about | ADV | _ | 14 million | advmod |
| 13 | 200 | 200 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 14 million | compound |
| 14 | million | million | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 years | nummod |
| 15 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 going | obl:unmarked |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 has | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 has | cc |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 has | nsubj |
| 19 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 fossil | conj |
| 20 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 23 relatives | det |
| 21 | close | close | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 relatives | amod |
| 22 | living | living | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 relatives | amod |
| 23 | relatives | relative | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 has | obj |
| 24 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 28 means | punct |
| 25 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 name | nmod:poss |
| 26 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 means | nsubj |
| 27 | biloba | biloba | PROPN | _ | 26 name | appos |
| 28 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 fossil | parataxis |
| 29 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 30 lobes | nummod |
| 30 | lobes | lobe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 means | obj |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 leaf | punct |
| 32 | after | after | ADP | _ | 35 leaf | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 leaf | det |
| 34 | split | split | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 35 leaf | amod |
| 35 | leaf | leaf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 means | obl |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 fossil | 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 | is a | present | the ginkgo | a living fossil | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | go back | gerund | fossil's family not said here | year | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | have | present | family | no close living relatives | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent relative=Patient | ||||
| 4 | mean | present | family's name | two lobes | after the split leaf | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lobe=Topic | |||
| 5 | split | participle | vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 6 | name | family | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=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:380-china-s-plants-bamboo-ginkgo-lotus-tea-and-rice-paddies.lesson:12.
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): no change. 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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