Seeds and fruit and how they travel, sentence 16
Violet seeds have a small fatty bit that ants love; ants carry the seed home, eat the fatty bit and throw the seed onto their rich rubbish pile, where it grows.
Who acts: Violet seeds, ants, seed · What happens: have, love, carry, eat, throw, grow · To what, where: small fatty bit, seed, fatty bit, rich rubbish pile
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 (Violet seeds, ants, 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 | Violet | violet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 seeds | compound |
| 2 | seeds | seed | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 have | nsubj |
| 3 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 bit | det |
| 5 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 bit | amod |
| 6 | fatty | fatty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 bit | amod |
| 7 | bit | bit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 have | obj |
| 8 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 love | obj |
| 9 | ants | ant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 love | nsubj |
| 10 | love | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 bit | acl:relcl |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 carry | punct |
| 12 | ants | ant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 carry | nsubj |
| 13 | carry | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 have | parataxis |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 seed | det |
| 15 | seed | seed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 carry | obj |
| 16 | home | home | ADV | _ | 13 carry | advmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 eat | punct |
| 18 | eat | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 carry | conj |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 bit | det |
| 20 | fatty | fatty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 bit | amod |
| 21 | bit | bit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 eat | obj |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 throw | cc |
| 23 | throw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 eat | conj |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 seed | det |
| 25 | seed | seed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 throw | obj |
| 26 | onto | onto | ADP | _ | 30 pile | case |
| 27 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 pile | nmod:poss |
| 28 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 pile | amod |
| 29 | rubbish | rubbish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 pile | compound |
| 30 | pile | pile | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 throw | obl |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 grows | punct |
| 32 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 34 grows | advmod |
| 33 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 grows | nsubj |
| 34 | grows | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 pile | acl:relcl |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 have | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | Violet seeds | a small fatty bit | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bit=Patient | ||||
| 2 | love | present | ants | a small fatty bit | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer that=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | carry | present | ants | the seed | home property | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent seed=Theme | |||
| 4 | eat | present | ants not said here | the fatty bit | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bit=Patient | ||||
| 5 | throw | present | ants not said here | the seed | ants's rich rubbish pile | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent seed=Theme onto pile=Destination | |||
| 6 | grow | present | seed | 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:059-seeds-and-fruit-and-how-they-travel.lesson:16.
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): R7-rel-agree ×3, 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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