Chores and broken things, sentence 11
A houseplant should be watered when its soil feels dry, because too much water rots the roots.
Who acts: soil, much water, houseplant · What happens: water, feel, rot, soil · To what, where: houseplant, roots
This is a sentence of the lesson «Chores and broken things» of the everyday 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 (soil, much water, houseplant), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 houseplant | det |
| 2 | houseplant | houseplant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 watered | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 watered | aux |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 watered | aux:pass |
| 5 | watered | water | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 9 feels | mark |
| 7 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 soil | nmod:poss |
| 8 | soil | soil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 feels | nsubj |
| 9 | feels | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 watered | advcl |
| 10 | dry | dry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 feels | xcomp |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 rots | punct |
| 12 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 16 rots | mark |
| 13 | too | too | ADV | _ | 14 much | advmod |
| 14 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 water | amod |
| 15 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 rots | nsubj |
| 16 | rots | rot | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 watered | advcl |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 roots | det |
| 18 | roots | root | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 rots | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 watered | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | water | should · passive | a houseplant | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: subject=Destination | |||||
| 2 | feel | present | houseplant's soil | dry property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | rot | present | much water | the roots | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | soil | houseplant | nom soil «state transitive»: poss=agent |
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:everyday:111-chores-and-broken-things.lesson:11.
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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