Flowers and pollination, sentence 14

A fig is a hollow ball of tiny flowers turned inwards, and wild figs are pollinated by tiny fig wasps that crawl inside; the fig digests any wasp that dies in it, and many figs sold in shops grow without wasps at all.

Who acts: fig, hollow ball, tiny fig wasps, wasp, many figs · What happens: be, turn, pollinate, crawl, digest, die · To what, where: hollow ball, wild figs, wasp, many figs, shops

This is a sentence of the lesson «Flowers and pollination» 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 (fig, hollow ball, tiny fig wasps, wasp), 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 fig	det
2	fig	fig	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 ball	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 ball	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 ball	det
5	hollow	hollow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 ball	amod
6	ball	ball	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 turned	nsubj
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 flowers	case
8	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 flowers	amod
9	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 ball	nmod
10	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	inwards	inwards	ADV	_	10 turned	advmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 pollinated	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 pollinated	cc
14	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 figs	amod
15	figs	fig	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 pollinated	nsubj
16	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 pollinated	aux:pass
17	pollinated	pollinate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 turned	conj
18	by	by	ADP	_	21 wasps	case
19	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 wasps	amod
20	fig	fig	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 wasps	compound
21	wasps	wasp	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 pollinated	obl
22	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 crawl	nsubj
23	crawl	crawl	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 wasps	acl:relcl
24	inside	inside	ADV	_	23 crawl	advmod
25	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 digests	punct
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 fig	det
27	fig	fig	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 digests	nsubj
28	digests	digest	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 turned	conj
29	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	30 wasp	det
30	wasp	wasp	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 digests	obj
31	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	32 dies	nsubj
32	dies	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 wasp	acl:relcl
33	in	in	ADP	_	34 it	case
34	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 dies	obl
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 grow	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 grow	cc
37	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 figs	amod
38	figs	fig	NOUN	Number=Plur	42 grow	nsubj
39	sold	sell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	38 figs	acl
40	in	in	ADP	_	41 shops	case
41	shops	shop	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 sold	obl
42	grow	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 digests	conj
43	without	without	ADP	_	44 wasps	case
44	wasps	wasp	NOUN	Number=Plur	42 grow	obl:agent
45	at	at	ADV	_	46 all	fixed
46	all	all	ADV	_	42 grow	advmod
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 ball	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	present	a fig	a hollow ball		of tiny flowers	tree rules
2	turn	past	a hollow ball			inwards property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
3	pollinate	present · passive	tiny fig wasps	wild figs			tree rules
4	crawl	present	tiny fig wasps			inside property	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	digest	present	the fig	any wasp			tree rules
6	die	present	any wasp			in fig	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in it=Attribute
7	sell	participle		many figs not said here	shops		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent
8	grow	present	many figs			all property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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:058-flowers-and-pollination.lesson:14.

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): R2-punct-next ×1, 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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