The desert: living with little water, sentence 12

Desert seeds can wait in the soil for years and, after heavy rain, sprout, flower and seed within a few weeks, sometimes as a superbloom even in the Atacama.

Who acts: Desert seeds · What happens: wait, sprout, flower · To what, where: soil

This is a sentence of the lesson «The desert: living with little water» 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 (Desert seeds), 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	Desert	desert	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 seeds	compound
2	seeds	seed	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 wait	nsubj
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 wait	aux
4	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 soil	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 soil	det
7	soil	soil	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wait	obl
8	for	for	ADP	_	9 years	case
9	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 wait	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 wait	cc
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 and	punct
12	after	after	ADP	_	14 rain	case
13	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 rain	amod
14	rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wait	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 sprout	punct
16	sprout	sprout	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 rain	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 flower	punct
18	flower	flower	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 sprout	conj
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 seed	cc
20	seed	seed	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wait	conj
21	within	within	ADP	_	24 weeks	case
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 weeks	det
23	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 weeks	amod
24	weeks	week	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 seed	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 superbloom	punct
26	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	29 superbloom	advmod
27	as	as	ADP	_	29 superbloom	case
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 superbloom	det
29	superbloom	superbloom	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 seed	obl
30	even	even	ADV	_	33 Atacama	advmod
31	in	in	ADP	_	33 Atacama	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 Atacama	det
33	Atacama	Atacama	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 superbloom	nmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 wait	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	roles by
1	wait	can	Desert seeds	the soil	after heavy rain; year	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in soil=Location
2	sprout	infinitive	Desert seeds not said here			vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Source
3	flower	infinitive	Desert seeds not said here			vn entity_specific_modes_being-47.2 «NP V»: agent=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:005-the-desert.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): R5-strong ×2, 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.

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