Finding your way with landmarks, sentence 17
Moss can grow on any damp, shady side of a tree, so it is not a reliable way to find north.
Who acts: Moss · What happens: grow, not be, find · To what, where: damp shady side, reliable way
This is a sentence of the lesson «Finding your way with landmarks» 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 (Moss), 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 | Moss | moss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 grow | nsubj |
| 2 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 grow | aux |
| 3 | grow | grow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 side | case |
| 5 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 9 side | det |
| 6 | damp | damp | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 side | amod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 damp | punct |
| 8 | shady | shady | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 side | amod |
| 9 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 grow | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 tree | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 tree | det |
| 12 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 side | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 way | punct |
| 14 | so | so | ADV | _ | 20 way | advmod |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 way | nsubj |
| 16 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 way | cop |
| 17 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 20 way | advmod |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 way | det |
| 19 | reliable | reliable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 way | amod |
| 20 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 grow | conj |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 find | mark |
| 22 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 way | acl |
| 23 | north | north | ADV | _ | 22 find | advmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 grow | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | can | Moss | any damp shady side of a tree | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on side=Location | ||||
| 2 | not is a | present | Moss | a reliable way | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | find | to-infinitive | Moss not said here | north property | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=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:016-landmarks.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): R2-punct-next ×1, R7-rel-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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