How plants grow: seeds, light, water and air, sentence 16
A potato is a swollen underground stem full of starch, and its sprouts are new shoots; green parts of potatoes can be poisonous.
Who acts: potato, sprouts · What happens: be · To what, where: swollen underground stem, new shoots
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 (potato, sprouts), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 potato | det |
| 2 | potato | potato | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 stem | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 stem | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 stem | det |
| 5 | swollen | swollen | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 stem | amod |
| 6 | underground | underground | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 stem | amod |
| 7 | stem | stem | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 stem | amod |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 starch | case |
| 10 | starch | starch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 full | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 shoots | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 shoots | cc |
| 13 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 sprouts | nmod:poss |
| 14 | sprouts | sprout | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 shoots | nsubj |
| 15 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 shoots | cop |
| 16 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 shoots | amod |
| 17 | shoots | shoot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 stem | conj |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 parts | punct |
| 19 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 parts | amod |
| 20 | parts | part | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 shoots | conj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 potatoes | case |
| 22 | potatoes | potato | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 parts | nmod |
| 23 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 poisonous | aux |
| 24 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 25 poisonous | cop |
| 25 | poisonous | poisonous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 stem | parataxis |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 stem | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | a potato | a swollen underground stem and new shoots and green parts of potatoes | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | potato's sprouts | new shoots and green parts of potatoes | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is | can | poisonous property | tree rules |
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:16.
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): 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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