Seeds and fruit and how they travel, sentence 8

Birds eat berries, and the seeds pass through unharmed and come out in their droppings far away; some berries are poisonous to people, so never eat wild berries you cannot name.

Who acts: Birds, seeds, berries, you · What happens: eat, pass through, come out, be, not eat, not name · To what, where: berries, droppings, wild berries

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 (Birds, seeds, berries, 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	Birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 eat	nsubj
2	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	berries	berry	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 eat	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 pass	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 pass	cc
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 seeds	det
7	seeds	seed	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 pass	nsubj
8	pass	pass	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 eat	conj
9	through	through	ADV	_	8 pass	advmod
10	unharmed	unharm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 pass	xcomp
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 come	cc
12	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 pass	conj
13	out	out	ADV	_	12 come	advmod
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 droppings	case
15	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 droppings	nmod:poss
16	droppings	dropping	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 come	obl
17	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	18 away	advmod
18	away	away	ADV	_	12 come	advmod
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 poisonous	punct
20	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	21 berries	det
21	berries	berry	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 poisonous	nsubj
22	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 poisonous	cop
23	poisonous	poisonous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 eat	parataxis
24	to	to	ADP	_	25 people	case
25	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 poisonous	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 eat	punct
27	so	so	ADV	_	29 eat	advmod
28	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	29 eat	advmod
29	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 eat	parataxis
30	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 berries	amod
31	berries	berry	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 eat	obj
32	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	35 name	nsubj
33	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	35 name	aux
34	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	35 name	advmod
35	name	name	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 berries	acl:relcl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 eat	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	eat	present	Birds	berries			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent berry=Patient
2	pass through	present	the seeds			through, unharm property	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	come out	present	the seeds not said here		birds's droppings	away, out property	vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient
4	is	present	some berries			to people; poisonous property	tree rules
5	not eat	infinitive		wild berries			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent berry=Patient
6	not name	can	you	wild berries not said here			vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent berry=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:8.

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 ×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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