Trees, sentence 13

Beech trees make a thick roof of leaves, so little grows beneath them except plants like bluebells that flower in spring before the beech leaves open.

Who acts: Beech trees, little, bluebells, beech, leaves · What happens: make, grow, flower, leaf, open · To what, where: thick roof

This is a sentence of the lesson «Trees» 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 (Beech trees, little, bluebells, beech), 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	Beech	beech	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 trees	compound
2	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 make	nsubj
3	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 roof	det
5	thick	thick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 roof	amod
6	roof	roof	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 make	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 leaves	case
8	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 roof	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 grows	punct
10	so	so	ADV	_	12 grows	advmod
11	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 grows	nsubj
12	grows	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 make	parataxis
13	beneath	beneath	ADP	_	14 them	case
14	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 grows	obl
15	except	except	ADP	_	16 plants	case
16	plants	plant	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 grows	obl
17	like	like	ADP	_	18 bluebells	case
18	bluebells	bluebell	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 plants	nmod
19	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 flower	nsubj
20	flower	flower	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 bluebells	acl:relcl
21	in	in	ADP	_	22 spring	case
22	spring	spring	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 flower	obl
23	before	before	SCONJ	_	27 open	mark
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 leaves	det
25	beech	beech	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 leaves	nsubj
26	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 open	nsubj
27	open	open	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 flower	advcl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 make	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: pos
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	Beech trees	a thick roof of leaves			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset roof=Product
2	grow	present	little			beneath Trees = tree; except plants like bluebells	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme beneath they=Location
3	flower	present	bluebells		spring		vn entity_specific_modes_being-47.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	leaf		beech				tree rules
5	open	present	the leaves				vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=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:060-trees.lesson:13.

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 ×3. 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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