Trees, sentence 15
The baobab stores large amounts of water in its spongy trunk to survive months without rain, drops its leaves in the dry season so it does not lose water through them, and some baobabs are over 1000 years old.
Who acts: baobab, baobabs · What happens: store, survive, drop, not lose, be, amount · To what, where: large amounts, spongy trunk, leaves, water
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 (baobab, baobabs), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 baobab | det |
| 2 | baobab | baobab | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 stores | nsubj |
| 3 | stores | store | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 amounts | amod |
| 5 | amounts | amount | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 stores | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 water | case |
| 7 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 amounts | nmod |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 trunk | case |
| 9 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 trunk | nmod:poss |
| 10 | spongy | spongy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 trunk | amod |
| 11 | trunk | trunk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 stores | obl |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 survive | mark |
| 13 | survive | survive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 stores | advcl |
| 14 | months | month | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 survive | obj |
| 15 | without | without | ADP | _ | 16 rain | case |
| 16 | rain | rain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 survive | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 drops | punct |
| 18 | drops | drop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 stores | conj |
| 19 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 leaves | nmod:poss |
| 20 | leaves | leaf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 drops | obj |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 season | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 season | det |
| 23 | dry | dry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 season | amod |
| 24 | season | season | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 drops | obl |
| 25 | so | so | ADV | _ | 29 lose | advmod |
| 26 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 lose | nsubj |
| 27 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 lose | aux |
| 28 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 29 lose | advmod |
| 29 | lose | lose | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 drops | advcl |
| 30 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 lose | obj |
| 31 | through | through | ADP | _ | 32 them | case |
| 32 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 lose | obl |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 old | punct |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 old | cc |
| 35 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 36 baobabs | det |
| 36 | baobabs | baobab | NOUN | Number=Plur | 41 old | nsubj |
| 37 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 41 old | cop |
| 38 | over | over | ADV | _ | 39 1000 | advmod |
| 39 | 1000 | 1000 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 40 years | nummod |
| 40 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 41 old | obl:unmarked |
| 41 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 stores | conj |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 stores | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | store | present | the baobab | large amounts of water | baobab's spongy trunk | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent amount=Theme in trunk=Location | |||
| 2 | survive | to-infinitive | the baobab not said here | month | without rain | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 3 | drop | present | the baobab not said here | baobab's leaves | season | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leaf=Theme | |||
| 4 | not lose | present · do-support | baobab | water | through leaves = leaf | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Eventuality | |||
| 5 | is | present | some baobabs | year | old property | tree rules | |||
| 6 | amount | water | nom amount «possession transitive»: of=patient |
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:15.
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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×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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