How plants grow: seeds, light, water and air, sentence 14
Plants grow mainly at the tips of their shoots and roots, and some bamboos can grow nearly a metre in a day.
Who acts: Plants, bamboos · What happens: grow · To what, where: tips, metre
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 (Plants, bamboos), 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 | Plants | plant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 grow | nsubj |
| 2 | grow | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | mainly | mainly | ADV | _ | 2 grow | advmod |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 tips | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 tips | det |
| 6 | tips | tip | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 grow | obl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 shoots | case |
| 8 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 shoots | nmod:poss |
| 9 | shoots | shoot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 tips | nmod |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 roots | cc |
| 11 | roots | root | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 shoots | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 grow | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 grow | cc |
| 14 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 15 bamboos | det |
| 15 | bamboos | bamboo | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 grow | nsubj |
| 16 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 grow | aux |
| 17 | grow | grow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 grow | conj |
| 18 | nearly | nearly | ADV | _ | 20 metre | advmod |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 metre | det |
| 20 | metre | metre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 grow | obj |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 day | case |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 day | det |
| 23 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 grow | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 grow | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | present | Plants | the tips of tips's shoots and roots | mainly property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at tip=Location | |||
| 2 | grow | can | some bamboos | a metre | day | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location metre=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:14.
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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