Roots, stems and leaves, sentence 1

Try the celery trick: stand a celery stick in blue food colouring overnight, and the leaves turn blue at the edges, because water is pulled up thin tubes in the stem as it evaporates from the leaves, like a drink up a straw.

Who acts: you, celery stick, leaves, water · What happens: try, stand, colour, turn, pull up, evaporate · To what, where: celery trick, celery stick, blue food, edges, water, leaves

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 (you, celery stick, leaves, water), 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	Try	try	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 trick	det
3	celery	celery	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 trick	compound
4	trick	trick	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Try	obj
5	:	:	PUNCT	_	6 stand	punct
6	stand	stand	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Try	parataxis
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 stick	det
8	celery	celery	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 stick	compound
9	stick	stick	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 stand	obj
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 food	case
11	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 food	amod
12	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 stick	nmod
13	colouring	colour	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 stick	acl
14	overnight	overnight	ADV	_	6 stand	advmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 turn	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 turn	cc
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 leaves	det
18	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 turn	nsubj
19	turn	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 stand	conj
20	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 turn	xcomp
21	at	at	ADP	_	23 edges	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 edges	det
23	edges	edge	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 turn	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 pulled	punct
25	because	because	SCONJ	_	28 pulled	mark
26	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 pulled	nsubj:pass
27	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 pulled	aux:pass
28	pulled	pull	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 turn	advcl
29	up	up	PART	_	28 pulled	compound:prt
30	thin	thin	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 tubes	amod
31	tubes	tube	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 pulled	obj
32	in	in	ADP	_	34 stem	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 stem	det
34	stem	stem	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 tubes	nmod
35	as	as	SCONJ	_	37 evaporates	mark
36	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 evaporates	nsubj
37	evaporates	evaporate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 pulled	advcl
38	from	from	ADP	_	40 leaves	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 leaves	det
40	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 evaporates	obl
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 drink	punct
42	like	like	ADP	_	44 drink	case
43	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	44 drink	det
44	drink	drink	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Try	obl
45	up	up	ADP	_	47 straw	case
46	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	47 straw	det
47	straw	straw	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 drink	nmod
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Try	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	try	imperative	you not said here	the celery trick		like a drink up a straw	vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trick=Eventuality
2	stand	infinitive		a celery stick	blue food	overnight property	vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent stick=Theme in food=Destination
3	colour	gerund	a celery stick not said here				tree rules
4	turn	present	the leaves		the edges	blue property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme at edge=Trajectory
5	pull up	present · passive		water			vn push-12-1 «NP V NP ADJP-Result»: subject=Theme tube=Result
6	evaporate	present	water		the leaves		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=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:057-roots-stems-and-leaves.lesson:1.

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): R5-strong ×3. 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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