Roots, stems and leaves, sentence 2
Tie a plastic bag over a leafy branch on a sunny day and it fogs up inside: that water came up from the roots and escaped through tiny holes in the leaves called stomata.
Who acts: you, bag, water, leaves · What happens: tie, fog up, come up, escape, call · To what, where: plastic bag, leafy branch, roots, tiny holes, stomata · Speech: someone speaks here
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, bag, water, leaves), 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 | Tie | tie | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 bag | det |
| 3 | plastic | plastic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 bag | amod |
| 4 | bag | bag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Tie | obj |
| 5 | over | over | ADP | _ | 8 branch | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 branch | det |
| 7 | leafy | leafy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 branch | amod |
| 8 | branch | branch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Tie | obl |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 day | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 day | det |
| 11 | sunny | sunny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 day | amod |
| 12 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Tie | obl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 fogs | cc |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 fogs | nsubj |
| 15 | fogs | fog | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Tie | conj |
| 16 | up | up | ADP | _ | 15 fogs | compound:prt |
| 17 | inside | inside | ADV | _ | 15 fogs | advmod |
| 18 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 15 fogs | punct |
| 19 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 20 water | det |
| 20 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 came | nsubj |
| 21 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 fogs | ccomp |
| 22 | up | up | ADV | _ | 21 came | advmod |
| 23 | from | from | ADP | _ | 25 roots | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 roots | det |
| 25 | roots | root | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 came | obl |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 escaped | cc |
| 27 | escaped | escape | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 came | conj |
| 28 | through | through | ADP | _ | 30 holes | case |
| 29 | tiny | tiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 holes | amod |
| 30 | holes | hole | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 escaped | obl |
| 31 | in | in | ADP | _ | 33 leaves | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 leaves | det |
| 33 | leaves | leaf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 holes | nmod |
| 34 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 33 leaves | acl |
| 35 | stomata | stomata | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 called | xcomp |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Tie | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- command
- act
- request
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tie | imperative | you not said here | a plastic bag | a leafy branch | day | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bag=Patient | ||
| 2 | fog up | present | bag | inside property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | come up | past | that water | the roots | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from root=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | escape | past | that water not said here | tiny holes in the leaves | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme through hole=Initial_Location | ||||
| 5 | call | participle | the leaves not said here | stomata | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: 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:2.
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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