Seeds and fruit and how they travel, sentence 0
A seed is a baby plant packed with a lunchbox, and the worst place for it to land is right under its parent, where it would fight for light, water and space, so plants have invented every kind of transport.
Who acts: seed, place, worst place, plants · What happens: be, pack, land, fight, invent · To what, where: baby plant, kind
This is a sentence of the lesson «Seeds and fruit and how they travel» 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 (seed, place, worst place, plants), 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 seed | det |
| 2 | seed | seed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 plant | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 plant | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 plant | det |
| 5 | baby | baby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 plant | compound |
| 6 | plant | plant | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | packed | pack | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 plant | acl |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 lunchbox | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 lunchbox | det |
| 10 | lunchbox | lunchbox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 packed | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 packed | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 right | cc |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 place | det |
| 14 | worst | bad | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 15 place | amod |
| 15 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 right | nsubj |
| 16 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 19 land | mark |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 land | nsubj |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 land | mark |
| 19 | land | land | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 place | acl |
| 20 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 right | cop |
| 21 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 plant | conj |
| 22 | under | under | ADP | _ | 24 parent | case |
| 23 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 parent | nmod:poss |
| 24 | parent | parent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 right | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 fight | punct |
| 26 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 29 fight | advmod |
| 27 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 fight | nsubj |
| 28 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 29 fight | aux |
| 29 | fight | fight | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 parent | acl:relcl |
| 30 | for | for | ADP | _ | 31 light | case |
| 31 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 fight | obl |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 water | punct |
| 33 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 light | conj |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 space | cc |
| 35 | space | space | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 light | conj |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 invented | punct |
| 37 | so | so | ADV | _ | 40 invented | advmod |
| 38 | plants | plant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 40 invented | nsubj |
| 39 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 40 invented | aux |
| 40 | invented | invent | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 plant | parataxis |
| 41 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 42 kind | det |
| 42 | kind | kind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 invented | obj |
| 43 | of | of | ADP | _ | 44 transport | case |
| 44 | transport | transport | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 kind | nmod |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 plant | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | a seed | a baby plant | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | pack | participle | a baby plant not said here | with a lunchbox | vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent with lunchbox=Theme | ||||
| 3 | land | to-infinitive | place | vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | is | present | the worst place | under place's parent; right property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | fight | would | seed | for light and water and space | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 6 | invent | present · perfect | plants | every kind of transport | vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kind=Result |
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:059-seeds-and-fruit-and-how-they-travel.lesson:0.
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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