Seeds and fruit and how they travel, sentence 7

A coconut is a seed in a fibrous, air-filled husk that floats and keeps sea water out; most other seeds would sink and be killed by the salt, but a coconut can float for months and travel thousands of kilometres across the sea and still sprout.

Who acts: coconut, fibrous filled husk, most other seeds, salt · What happens: be, fill, float, keep out, sink, kill · To what, where: seed, fibrous filled husk, sea water, thousands, sea

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 (coconut, fibrous filled husk, most other seeds, salt), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 coconut	det
2	coconut	coconut	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 seed	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 seed	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 seed	det
5	seed	seed	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	in	in	ADP	_	13 husk	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 husk	det
8	fibrous	fibrous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 husk	amod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 fibrous	punct
10	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 filled	compound
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 air	punct
12	filled	fill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 husk	amod
13	husk	husk	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 seed	nmod
14	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 floats	nsubj
15	floats	float	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 husk	acl:relcl
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 keeps	cc
17	keeps	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 floats	conj
18	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 water	compound
19	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 keeps	obj
20	out	out	ADP	_	17 keeps	compound:prt
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 sink	punct
22	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	24 seeds	amod
23	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 seeds	amod
24	seeds	seed	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 sink	nsubj
25	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 sink	aux
26	sink	sink	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 seed	parataxis
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 killed	cc
28	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	29 killed	aux:pass
29	killed	kill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	26 sink	conj
30	by	by	ADP	_	32 salt	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 salt	det
32	salt	salt	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 killed	obl
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 float	punct
34	but	but	CCONJ	_	38 float	cc
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 coconut	det
36	coconut	coconut	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 float	nsubj
37	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	38 float	aux
38	float	float	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 sink	conj
39	for	for	ADP	_	40 months	case
40	months	month	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 float	obl
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 travel	cc
42	travel	travel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	38 float	conj
43	thousands	thousand	NOUN	Number=Plur	42 travel	obj
44	of	of	ADP	_	45 kilometres	case
45	kilometres	kilometre	NOUN	Number=Plur	43 thousands	nmod
46	across	across	ADP	_	48 sea	case
47	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	48 sea	det
48	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 travel	obl
49	and	and	CCONJ	_	51 sprout	cc
50	still	still	ADV	_	51 sprout	advmod
51	sprout	sprout	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	38 float	conj
52	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 seed	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	is a	present	a coconut	a seed	a fibrous filled husk		tree rules
2	fill	participle					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	float	present	a fibrous filled husk				vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	keep out	present	a fibrous filled husk not said here	sea water			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Theme
5	sink	would	most other seeds				vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
6	kill	infinitive · passive	the salt				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
7	float	can	a coconut			month	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	travel	infinitive	a coconut not said here	thousands of kilometres	the sea		vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme thousand=Trajectory
9	sprout	infinitive	a coconut not said here			still	vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Source

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:7.

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 ×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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