Browning apples, rotting and mould, sentence 16
Lots of sugar pulls water out of germs and stops them growing, so jam keeps for months; low-sugar jam and opened jam still go mouldy.
Who acts: Lots, jam, sugar jam · What happens: pull, stop, grow, keep, open, go · To what, where: water, germs
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 (Lots, jam, sugar jam), 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 | Lots | lot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 pulls | nsubj |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 water | case |
| 3 | sugar | sugar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Lots | nmod |
| 4 | pulls | pull | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 pulls | obj |
| 6 | out | out | ADP | _ | 8 germs | case |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 germs | case |
| 8 | germs | germ | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 pulls | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 stops | cc |
| 10 | stops | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 pulls | conj |
| 11 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 stops | obj |
| 12 | growing | grow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 stops | xcomp |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 keeps | punct |
| 14 | so | so | ADV | _ | 16 keeps | advmod |
| 15 | jam | jam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 keeps | nsubj |
| 16 | keeps | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 pulls | parataxis |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 months | case |
| 18 | months | month | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 keeps | obl |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 4 pulls | punct |
| 20 | low | low | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 sugar | amod |
| 21 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 low | punct |
| 22 | sugar | sugar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 jam | compound |
| 23 | jam | jam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 go | nsubj |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 jam | cc |
| 25 | opened | open | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 26 jam | amod |
| 26 | jam | jam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 jam | conj |
| 27 | still | still | ADV | _ | 28 go | advmod |
| 28 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 pulls | parataxis |
| 29 | mouldy | mouldy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 go | xcomp |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 pulls | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pull | present | Lots sugar | water | germs | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent water=Theme out germ=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | stop | present | Lots sugar not said here | Germs = germ | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | grow | gerund | Lots sugar not said here | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | keep | present | jam | month | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | open | participle | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 6 | go | present | sugar jam and opened jam | still | mouldy property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «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:023-browning-apples-rotting-and-mould.lesson:16.
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 ×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.
See the release 0.4.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/23-browning-apples-rotting-and-mould/16/