Roots, stems and leaves, sentence 0
A plant is built like a house with plumbing: roots underground drink water and hold on tight, the stem is a bundle of pipes and a pillar, and the leaves are solar panels that make food.
Who acts: roots, stem, leaves, solar panels · What happens: build, drink, hold on, be, make · To what, where: plant, water, bundle, solar panels, food
This is a sentence of the lesson «Roots, stems and leaves» 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 (roots, stem, leaves, solar panels), 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 plant | det |
| 2 | plant | plant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 built | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 built | aux:pass |
| 4 | built | build | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | like | like | ADP | _ | 7 house | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 house | det |
| 7 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 built | obl |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 plumbing | case |
| 9 | plumbing | plumbing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 house | nmod |
| 10 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 4 built | punct |
| 11 | roots | root | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 drink | nsubj |
| 12 | underground | underground | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 roots | amod |
| 13 | drink | drink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 built | parataxis |
| 14 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 drink | obj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 hold | cc |
| 16 | hold | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 drink | conj |
| 17 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 hold | compound:prt |
| 18 | tight | tight | ADV | _ | 16 hold | advmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 bundle | punct |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 stem | det |
| 21 | stem | stem | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 bundle | nsubj |
| 22 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 bundle | cop |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 bundle | det |
| 24 | bundle | bundle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 built | parataxis |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 pipes | case |
| 26 | pipes | pipe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 bundle | nmod |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 pillar | cc |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 pillar | det |
| 29 | pillar | pillar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 pipes | conj |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 panels | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 panels | cc |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 leaves | det |
| 33 | leaves | leaf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 panels | nsubj |
| 34 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 36 panels | cop |
| 35 | solar | solar | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 panels | amod |
| 36 | panels | panel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 built | conj |
| 37 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 38 make | nsubj |
| 38 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 36 panels | acl:relcl |
| 39 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 make | obj |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 built | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | build | present · passive | a plant | like a house with plumbing | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product | ||||
| 2 | drink | present | roots | water | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Patient | ||||
| 3 | hold on | present | roots not said here | tight property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | is a | present | the stem | a bundle | of pipes and a pillar | tree rules | |||
| 5 | is a | present | the leaves | solar panels | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | make | present | solar panels | food | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset food=Product |
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:057-roots-stems-and-leaves.lesson:0.
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): R6-punct-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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