How plants grow: seeds, light, water and air, sentence 13
Most seeds need warmth as well as water and air to germinate, and a date palm seed about 2000 years old was grown in Israel.
Who acts: Most seeds · What happens: need, germinate, grow · To what, where: warmth, palm seed, Israel
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 (Most 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 | Most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 2 seeds | amod |
| 2 | seeds | seed | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 need | nsubj |
| 3 | need | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | warmth | warmth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 need | obj |
| 5 | as | as | ADV | ExtPos=ADV | 3 need | advmod |
| 6 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 as | fixed |
| 7 | as | as | ADP | _ | 8 water | case |
| 8 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 warmth | conj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 air | cc |
| 10 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 water | conj |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 germinate | mark |
| 12 | germinate | germinate | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 need | advcl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 grown | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 grown | cc |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 seed | det |
| 16 | date | date | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 palm | compound |
| 17 | palm | palm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 seed | compound |
| 18 | seed | seed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 grown | nsubj:pass |
| 19 | about | about | ADV | _ | 20 2000 | advmod |
| 20 | 2000 | 2000 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 21 years | nummod |
| 21 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 old | obl:unmarked |
| 22 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 seed | amod |
| 23 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 grown | aux:pass |
| 24 | grown | grow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 need | conj |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 Israel | case |
| 26 | Israel | Israel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 grown | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 need | 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 | need | present | Most seeds | warmth and water and air | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot warmth=Theme | ||||
| 2 | germinate | to-infinitive | Most seeds not said here | vn entity_specific_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 3 | grow | past · passive | a palm seed | Israel | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=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:056-how-plants-grow.lesson:13.
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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×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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