Flowers and pollination, sentence 15

A dandelion head is about 100 to 200 tiny flowers; it opens in bright daylight and closes at night or in rain, protecting its pollen.

Who acts: dandelion head · What happens: be, open, close, protect · To what, where: 100, bright daylight, pollen

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 (dandelion head), 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	3 head	det
2	dandelion	dandelion	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 head	compound
3	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 opens	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 100	cop
5	about	about	ADV	_	6 100	advmod
6	100	100	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	3 head	nmod
7	to	to	ADP	_	8 200	case
8	200	200	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	10 flowers	nummod
9	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 flowers	amod
10	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 100	nmod
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 opens	punct
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 opens	nsubj
13	opens	open	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 daylight	case
15	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 daylight	amod
16	daylight	daylight	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 opens	obl
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 closes	cc
18	closes	close	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 opens	conj
19	at	at	ADP	_	20 night	case
20	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 closes	obl
21	or	or	CCONJ	_	23 rain	cc
22	in	in	ADP	_	23 rain	case
23	rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 night	conj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 protecting	punct
25	protecting	protect	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 closes	advcl
26	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 pollen	nmod:poss
27	pollen	pollen	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 protecting	obj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 opens	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		100			200 tiny flowers nmod; about property	tree rules
2	open	present	a dandelion head		bright daylight			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in daylight=Location
3	close	present	a dandelion head not said here			night		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
4	protect	gerund	a dandelion head not said here	head's pollen				vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pollen=Beneficiary

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:15.

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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