Seeds and fruit and how they travel, sentence 14
The Svalbard Global Seed Vault in Norway stores over a million seed samples deep in a frozen mountain, as a back-up if crops are lost; cold and dryness slow a seed right down, so it stays alive for a very long time.
Who acts: Svalbard Global Seed Vault, cold, seed · What happens: store, freeze, lose, slow, stay · To what, where: million seed samples, crops, seed
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 (Svalbard Global Seed Vault, cold, seed), 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 Vault | det |
| 2 | Svalbard | Svalbard | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Vault | compound |
| 3 | Global | Global | PROPN | _ | 5 Vault | compound |
| 4 | Seed | seed | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Vault | compound |
| 5 | Vault | vault | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 stores | nsubj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 Norway | case |
| 7 | Norway | Norway | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Vault | nmod |
| 8 | stores | store | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | over | over | ADP | _ | 13 samples | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 million | det |
| 11 | million | million | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 samples | nummod |
| 12 | seed | seed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 samples | compound |
| 13 | samples | sample | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 stores | obj |
| 14 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 samples | amod |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 mountain | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 mountain | det |
| 17 | frozen | freeze | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 mountain | amod |
| 18 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 deep | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 up | punct |
| 20 | as | as | ADP | _ | 24 up | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 up | det |
| 22 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 up | compound |
| 23 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 back | punct |
| 24 | up | up | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 stores | obl |
| 25 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 28 lost | mark |
| 26 | crops | crop | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 lost | nsubj:pass |
| 27 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 lost | aux:pass |
| 28 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 up | advcl |
| 29 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 33 slow | punct |
| 30 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 slow | nsubj |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 dryness | cc |
| 32 | dryness | dryness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 cold | conj |
| 33 | slow | slow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 stores | parataxis |
| 34 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 35 seed | det |
| 35 | seed | seed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 slow | obj |
| 36 | right | right | ADV | _ | 37 down | advmod |
| 37 | down | down | ADV | _ | 33 slow | advmod |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 stays | punct |
| 39 | so | so | ADV | _ | 41 stays | advmod |
| 40 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 stays | nsubj |
| 41 | stays | stay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 stores | conj |
| 42 | alive | alive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 stays | xcomp |
| 43 | for | for | ADP | _ | 47 time | case |
| 44 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 47 time | det |
| 45 | very | very | ADV | _ | 46 long | advmod |
| 46 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 47 time | amod |
| 47 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 stays | obl |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 stores | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed polarity=none
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | store | present | the Svalbard Global Seed Vault in Norway | million seed samples | as a back up | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sample=Theme | |||
| 2 | freeze | participle | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 3 | lose a condition, not said to happen | present · passive | crops | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | slow | present | cold and dryness | a seed | down property | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent seed=Patient | |||
| 5 | stay | present | seed | time | alive property | vn exist-47.1 «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:059-seeds-and-fruit-and-how-they-travel.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, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×3. 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.
See the release 0.4.
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