Seeds and fruit and how they travel, sentence 9

Burrs are seed heads covered in tiny hooks; George de Mestral invented Velcro in the 1940s after looking at burrs from his dog under a microscope.

Who acts: Burrs, George · What happens: be, cover, invent, look · To what, where: seed heads, Velcro, 1940s

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 (Burrs, George), 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	Burrs	burr	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 heads	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 heads	cop
3	seed	seed	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 heads	compound
4	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	covered	cover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 heads	acl
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 hooks	case
7	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 hooks	amod
8	hooks	hook	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 covered	obl
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 invented	punct
10	George	George	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 invented	nsubj
11	de	de	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 George	flat
12	Mestral	Mestral	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 George	flat
13	invented	invent	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 heads	parataxis
14	Velcro	Velcro	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 invented	obj
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 1940s	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 1940s	det
17	1940s	1940	NOUN	Number=Ptan NumForm=Combi NumType=Card	13 invented	obl
18	after	after	SCONJ	_	19 looking	mark
19	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 invented	advcl
20	at	at	ADP	_	21 burrs	case
21	burrs	burr	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 looking	obl
22	from	from	ADP	_	24 dog	case
23	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 dog	nmod:poss
24	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 burrs	nmod
25	under	under	ADP	_	27 microscope	case
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 microscope	det
27	microscope	microscope	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 looking	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 heads	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Burrs	seed heads			tree rules
2	cover	participle		seed heads not said here		in tiny hooks	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent in hook=Theme
3	invent	past	George	Velcro	the 1940s		vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent velcro=Result
4	look	gerund	George not said here			under a microscope; at burrs from George's dog	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at burr=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:9.

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 ×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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