Roots, stems and leaves, sentence 16
The Amazon giant water lily has floating leaves up to about 3 metres across, with air-filled ribs underneath and spines to protect it from fish; the ribs inspired the Crystal Palace in London.
Who acts: Amazon giant water lily, ribs · What happens: have, float, fill, protect, inspire · To what, where: floating leaves, lily, Crystal Palace, London
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 (Amazon giant water lily, ribs), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 lily | det |
| 2 | Amazon | Amazon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 lily | compound |
| 3 | giant | giant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 lily | amod |
| 4 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 lily | compound |
| 5 | lily | lily | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 has | nsubj |
| 6 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | floating | float | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 leaves | amod |
| 8 | leaves | leave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 has | obj |
| 9 | up | up | ADV | _ | 8 leaves | advmod |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 metres | case |
| 11 | about | about | ADV | _ | 12 3 | advmod |
| 12 | 3 | 3 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 13 metres | nummod |
| 13 | metres | metre | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 across | obl |
| 14 | across | across | ADV | _ | 8 leaves | advmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 ribs | punct |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 ribs | case |
| 17 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 filled | compound |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 air | punct |
| 19 | filled | fill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 ribs | amod |
| 20 | ribs | rib | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 leaves | obl |
| 21 | underneath | underneath | ADV | _ | 20 ribs | advmod |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 spines | cc |
| 23 | spines | spine | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 ribs | conj |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 protect | mark |
| 25 | protect | protect | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 ribs | advcl |
| 26 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 protect | obj |
| 27 | from | from | ADP | _ | 28 fish | case |
| 28 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 protect | obl |
| 29 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 32 inspired | punct |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 ribs | det |
| 31 | ribs | rib | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 inspired | nsubj |
| 32 | inspired | inspire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 has | parataxis |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 Palace | det |
| 34 | Crystal | crystal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 Palace | amod |
| 35 | Palace | Palace | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 inspired | obj |
| 36 | in | in | ADP | _ | 37 London | case |
| 37 | London | London | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 Palace | nmod |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 has | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | the Amazon giant water lily | floating leaves | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leave=Patient | ||||
| 2 | float | gerund | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | fill | participle | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 4 | protect | to-infinitive | the Amazon giant water lily not said here | lily | from fish | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Beneficiary from fish=Theme | |||
| 5 | inspire | past | the ribs | the Crystal Palace | London | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus palace=Experiencer |
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: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): R5-strong ×1, 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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