Fire: what it needs and how to put it out, sentence 17
Some trees and seeds need fire to open their cones and grow.
Who acts: trees · What happens: need, open, grow · To what, where: fire, cones
This is a sentence of the lesson «Fire: what it needs and how to put it out» of the chemistry 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 (trees), 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 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 2 trees | det |
| 2 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 need | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 seeds | cc |
| 4 | seeds | seed | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 trees | conj |
| 5 | need | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 need | obj |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 open | mark |
| 8 | open | open | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 need | advcl |
| 9 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 cones | nmod:poss |
| 10 | cones | cone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 open | obj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 grow | cc |
| 12 | grow | grow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 open | conj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 need | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | need | present | some trees and seeds | fire | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot fire=Theme | ||||
| 2 | open | to-infinitive | some trees and seeds not said here | trees's cones | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location cone=Theme | ||||
| 3 | grow | infinitive | some trees and seeds not said here | vn appear-48.1.1 «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:chemistry:012-fire-what-it-needs.lesson:17.
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): R5-strong ×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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