Carnivorous and strange plants, sentence 0

Most plants live quietly on light, air, water and a little from the soil, but some grow in wet, boggy ground so poor that they have turned into hunters of insects.

Who acts: Most plants, some, plants · What happens: live, grow, turn · To what, where: light, wet boggy ground, hunters

This is a sentence of the lesson «Carnivorous and strange plants» 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 (Most plants, some, plants), 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	Most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	2 plants	amod
2	plants	plant	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 live	nsubj
3	live	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	quietly	quietly	ADV	_	3 live	advmod
5	on	on	ADP	_	6 light	case
6	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 live	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 air	punct
8	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 light	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 water	punct
10	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 light	conj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 little	cc
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 little	det
13	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 light	conj
14	from	from	ADP	_	16 soil	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 soil	det
16	soil	soil	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 little	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 grow	punct
18	but	but	CCONJ	_	20 grow	cc
19	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	20 grow	nsubj
20	grow	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 live	conj
21	in	in	ADP	_	25 ground	case
22	wet	wet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 ground	amod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 wet	punct
24	boggy	boggy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 ground	amod
25	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 grow	obl
26	so	so	ADV	_	27 poor	advmod
27	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 ground	amod
28	that	that	SCONJ	_	31 turned	mark
29	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 turned	nsubj
30	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 turned	aux
31	turned	turn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	27 poor	advcl
32	into	into	ADP	_	33 hunters	case
33	hunters	hunter	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 turned	obl
34	of	of	ADP	_	35 insects	case
35	insects	insect	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 hunters	nmod
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 live	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	live	present	Most plants	light and air and water	quietly property	vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on light=Location
2	grow	present	some	wet boggy ground		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in ground=Location
3	turn	present · perfect	plants = plant	hunters of insects		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into hunter=Trajectory

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:061-carnivorous-and-strange-plants.lesson:0.

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): no change. 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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