Browning apples, rotting and mould, sentence 15

Drying removes the water germs need, so dried fruit keeps for months; ancient Egyptians dried food in the sun to store it.

Who acts: Drying, water germs, dried fruit, ancient Egyptians · What happens: remove, need, keep, dry, store · To what, where: water germs, food, sun

This is a sentence of the lesson «Browning apples, rotting and mould» 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 (Drying, water germs, dried fruit, ancient Egyptians), 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	Drying	drying	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 removes	nsubj
2	removes	remove	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 germs	det
4	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 germs	compound
5	germs	germ	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 removes	obj
6	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 germs	acl:relcl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 keeps	punct
8	so	so	ADV	_	11 keeps	advmod
9	dried	dried	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 fruit	amod
10	fruit	fruit	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 keeps	nsubj
11	keeps	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 removes	conj
12	for	for	ADP	_	13 months	case
13	months	month	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 keeps	obl:unmarked
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 dried	punct
15	ancient	ancient	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 Egyptians	amod
16	Egyptians	Egyptian	PROPN	Number=Plur	17 dried	nsubj
17	dried	dry	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 removes	conj
18	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 dried	obj
19	in	in	ADP	_	21 sun	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 sun	det
21	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 dried	obl
22	to	to	PART	_	23 store	mark
23	store	store	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 dried	advcl
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 store	obj
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 removes	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	remove	present	Drying	the water germs			vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent germ=Theme
2	need	present	the water germs not said here				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
3	keep	present	dried fruit			month	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	dry	past	ancient Egyptians	food	the sun		vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient food=Result
5	store	to-infinitive	ancient Egyptians not said here	Food			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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:023-browning-apples-rotting-and-mould.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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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