Roots, stems and leaves, sentence 11

Pea plants climb with tendrils that wrap round whatever they touch, reaching the light without building a thick stem; ivy climbs with tiny gripping roots.

Who acts: Pea plants, tendrils, spines, ivy · What happens: climb, wrap, touch, reach, build, grip · To what, where: whatever, light, thick stem

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 (Pea plants, tendrils, spines, ivy), 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	Pea	pea	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 plants	compound
2	plants	plant	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 climb	nsubj
3	climb	climb	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	with	with	ADP	_	5 tendrils	case
5	tendrils	tendril	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 climb	obl
6	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 wrap	nsubj
7	wrap	wrap	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 tendrils	acl:relcl
8	round	round	ADV	_	9 whatever	advmod
9	whatever	whatever	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 wrap	obj
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 touch	nsubj
11	touch	touch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 whatever	acl:relcl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 reaching	punct
13	reaching	reach	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 climb	advcl
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 light	det
15	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 reaching	obj
16	without	without	SCONJ	_	17 building	mark
17	building	build	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 reaching	advcl
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 stem	det
19	thick	thick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 stem	amod
20	stem	stem	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 building	obj
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 climbs	punct
22	ivy	ivy	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 climbs	nsubj
23	climbs	climb	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 climb	parataxis
24	with	with	ADP	_	27 roots	case
25	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 roots	amod
26	gripping	grip	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	27 roots	amod
27	roots	root	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 climbs	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 climb	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	climb	present	Pea plants		with tendrils	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	wrap	present	tendrils	whatever		vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent whatever=Theme
3	touch	present	spines = spine			vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	reach	gerund	Pea plants not said here	the light		vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent light=Theme
5	build	gerund	Pea plants not said here	a thick stem		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset stem=Product
6	climb	present	ivy		with tiny gripping roots	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	grip	gerund				vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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:11.

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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