How plants grow: seeds, light, water and air, sentence 4

Cartoons show plants eating soil with roots like spoons, and carnivorous plants swallowing people; real plants make their own food from light, air and water, and no plant can eat a person.

Who acts: Cartoons, plants, carnivorous plants, real plants, plant · What happens: show, eat, swallow, make · To what, where: plants, soil, people, own food, light, person

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 (Cartoons, plants, carnivorous plants, real plants), 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	Cartoons	cartoon	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 show	nsubj
2	show	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	plants	plant	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 show	obj
4	eating	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 plants	acl
5	soil	soil	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 eating	obj
6	with	with	ADP	_	7 roots	case
7	roots	root	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 eating	obl
8	like	like	ADP	_	9 spoons	case
9	spoons	spoon	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 roots	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 swallowing	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 swallowing	cc
12	carnivorous	carnivorous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 plants	amod
13	plants	plant	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 swallowing	nsubj
14	swallowing	swallow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 show	conj
15	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 swallowing	obj
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 make	punct
17	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 plants	amod
18	plants	plant	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 make	nsubj
19	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 show	parataxis
20	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 food	nmod:poss
21	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 food	amod
22	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 make	obj
23	from	from	ADP	_	24 light	case
24	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 make	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 air	punct
26	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 light	conj
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 water	cc
28	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 light	conj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 eat	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 eat	cc
31	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	32 plant	det
32	plant	plant	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 eat	nsubj
33	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	34 eat	aux
34	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 show	conj
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 person	det
36	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 eat	obj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 show	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	show	present	Cartoons	plants			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent plant=Recipient
2	eat	gerund	plants not said here	soil		with roots like spoons	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent soil=Patient
3	swallow	gerund	carnivorous plants	people			vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Patient
4	make	present	real plants	Cartoons's own food	light and air and water		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V PP»: agent=Asset food=Product from light=Material
5	eat	can	no plant	a person			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent person=Patient

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:4.

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. 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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