Seeds and fruit and how they travel, sentence 2

Some hitch a ride: burdock burrs hook onto your dog's fur after a walk, birds eat berries and drop the seeds far away, and squirrels bury acorns and forget half of them, planting new oaks by accident.

Who acts: Some, burdock burrs, birds, squirrels · What happens: hitch, hook, eat, drop, bury, forget · To what, where: ride, fur, berries, seeds, acorns, half

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 (Some, burdock burrs, birds, squirrels), 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	2 hitch	nsubj
2	hitch	hitch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 eat	parataxis
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 ride	det
4	ride	ride	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 hitch	obj
5	:	:	PUNCT	_	2 hitch	punct
6	burdock	burdock	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 burrs	compound
7	burrs	burr	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 hook	nsubj
8	hook	hook	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 hitch	parataxis
9	onto	onto	ADP	_	13 fur	case
10	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 dog	nmod:poss
11	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 fur	nmod:poss
12	's	's	PART	_	11 dog	case
13	fur	fur	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 hook	obl
14	after	after	ADP	_	16 walk	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 walk	det
16	walk	walk	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 hook	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 eat	punct
18	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 eat	nsubj
19	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
20	berries	berry	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 eat	obj
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 drop	cc
22	drop	drop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 eat	conj
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 seeds	det
24	seeds	seed	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 drop	obj
25	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	26 away	advmod
26	away	away	ADV	_	22 drop	advmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 bury	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 bury	cc
29	squirrels	squirrel	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 bury	nsubj
30	bury	bury	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 eat	conj
31	acorns	acorn	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 bury	obj
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 forget	cc
33	forget	forget	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 bury	conj
34	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	33 forget	obj
35	of	of	ADP	_	36 them	case
36	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 half	nmod
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 planting	punct
38	planting	plant	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	33 forget	advcl
39	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 oaks	amod
40	oaks	oak	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 planting	obj
41	by	by	ADP	_	42 accident	case
42	accident	accident	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 planting	obl
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 hitch	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hitch	present	Some	a ride				vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ride=Patient
2	hook	present	burdock burrs		your dog's fur	after a walk		vn coil-9.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme onto fur=Destination
3	eat	present	birds	berries				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent berry=Patient
4	drop	present	birds not said here	the seeds			away property	vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent seed=Theme
5	bury	present	squirrels	acorns				vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent acorn=Theme
6	forget	present	squirrels not said here	half of squirrels				tree rules
7	plant	gerund	squirrels not said here	new oaks			by accident	vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent oak=Theme by accident=Destination

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:2.

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): R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2. 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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