How plants grow: seeds, light, water and air, sentence 10

In the 1600s Jan van Helmont grew a willow in a pot for five years; it gained about 74 kg while the soil lost only a few grams.

Who acts: Jan, willow, soil · What happens: grow, gain, lose · To what, where: willow, 1600s, 74 kg, few grams

This is a sentence of the lesson «How plants grow: seeds, light, water and air» 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 (Jan, willow, soil), 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 1600s	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 1600s	det
3	1600s	1600	NOUN	Number=Ptan NumForm=Combi NumType=Card	7 grew	obl
4	Jan	Jan	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 grew	nsubj
5	van	Van	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Jan	flat
6	Helmont	Helmont	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Jan	flat
7	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 willow	det
9	willow	willow	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 grew	obj
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 pot	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 pot	det
12	pot	pot	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 grew	obl
13	for	for	ADP	_	15 years	case
14	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 years	nummod
15	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 grew	obl
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 gained	punct
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 gained	nsubj
18	gained	gain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 grew	parataxis
19	about	about	ADV	_	20 74	advmod
20	74	74	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	21 kg	nummod
21	kg	kg	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 gained	obj
22	while	while	SCONJ	_	25 lost	mark
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 soil	det
24	soil	soil	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 lost	nsubj
25	lost	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 gained	advcl
26	only	only	ADV	_	29 grams	advmod
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 grams	det
28	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 grams	amod
29	grams	gram	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 lost	obj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 grew	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	past	Jan	a willow	the 1600s	year	in a pot	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location willow=Theme
2	gain	past	willow	74 kg				vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kg=Theme
3	lose	past	the soil	a few grams				vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gram=Eventuality

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:056-how-plants-grow.lesson:10.

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 ×1, R7-rel-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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