Seeds and fruit and how they travel, sentence 3

Some go by sea, like the floating coconut, and some simply explode: on a hot summer day on the heath you can hear gorse pods pop and fling their seeds out.

Who acts: Some, you · What happens: go, float, explode, hear · To what, where: pods pop

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, you), 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 go	nsubj
2	go	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	by	by	ADP	_	4 sea	case
4	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 go	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 coconut	punct
6	like	like	ADP	_	9 coconut	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 coconut	det
8	floating	float	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 coconut	amod
9	coconut	coconut	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 go	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 explode	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 explode	cc
12	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	14 explode	nsubj
13	simply	simply	ADV	_	14 explode	advmod
14	explode	explode	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 go	conj
15	:	:	PUNCT	_	26 hear	punct
16	on	on	ADP	_	20 day	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 day	det
18	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 day	amod
19	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 day	compound
20	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 hear	obl
21	on	on	ADP	_	23 heath	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 heath	det
23	heath	heath	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 day	nmod
24	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	26 hear	nsubj
25	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 hear	aux
26	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 go	conj
27	gorse	gorse	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 pods	compound
28	pods	pod	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 pop	compound
29	pop	pop	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 hear	obj
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 fling	cc
31	fling	fling	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 pop	conj
32	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 seeds	nmod:poss
33	seeds	seed	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 fling	obj
34	out	out	ADV	_	26 hear	advmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 go	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	go	present	Some			by sea; like the floating coconut	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by sea=Location
2	float	gerund					vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	explode	present	some			simply property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	hear	can	you	pods pop and fling	day	out property	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer pop=Stimulus

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:3.

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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-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.

See the release 0.4.

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