Seeds and fruit and how they travel, sentence 15

Some lotus seeds found in a dry lake bed in China sprouted after about 1300 years, protected by a very hard coat; seeds that can wait help a plant survive bad years, sprouting when the drought or cold is over.

Who acts: lotus seeds, seeds, plant, drought · What happens: find, sprout, protect, wait, help, survive · To what, where: lotus seeds, dry lake bed, plant

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 (lotus seeds, seeds, plant, drought), 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	Some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	3 seeds	det
2	lotus	lotus	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 seeds	compound
3	seeds	seed	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 sprouted	nsubj
4	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 seeds	acl
5	in	in	ADP	_	9 bed	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 bed	det
7	dry	dry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 bed	amod
8	lake	lake	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 bed	compound
9	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 found	obl
10	in	in	ADP	_	11 China	case
11	China	China	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 bed	nmod
12	sprouted	sprout	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	after	after	ADP	_	16 years	case
14	about	about	ADV	_	15 1300	advmod
15	1300	1300	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	16 years	nummod
16	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 sprouted	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 protected	punct
18	protected	protect	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 sprouted	advcl
19	by	by	ADP	_	23 coat	case
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 coat	det
21	very	very	ADV	_	22 hard	advmod
22	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 coat	amod
23	coat	coat	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 protected	obl
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 seeds	punct
25	seeds	seed	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 help	nsubj
26	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	28 wait	nsubj
27	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 wait	aux
28	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 seeds	acl:relcl
29	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 sprouted	parataxis
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 plant	det
31	plant	plant	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 help	obj
32	survive	survive	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 help	xcomp
33	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 years	amod
34	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 survive	obj
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 sprouting	punct
36	sprouting	sprout	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	32 survive	advcl
37	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	43 over	advmod
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 drought	det
39	drought	drought	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 over	nsubj
40	or	or	CCONJ	_	41 cold	cc
41	cold	cold	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 drought	conj
42	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	43 over	cop
43	over	over	ADV	_	36 sprouting	advcl
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 sprouted	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	find	participle		some lotus seeds not said here	a dry lake bed in China			vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
2	sprout	past	some lotus seeds			year		vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Source
3	protect	participle	some lotus seeds not said here				by a hard coat	vn defend-72.3 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent
4	wait	can	seeds					vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	help	infinitive	seeds	a plant				vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent plant=Beneficiary clause=Theme
6	survive	infinitive	a plant not said here			year		vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	sprout	gerund	a plant not said here					vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Source
8	is	present	the drought or cold				over property	tree rules

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: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, R8-pos-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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