Safe and kind in gardens and forests, sentence 3

Worms keep soil healthy, bees pollinate flowers (carry pollen from flower to flower so seeds and fruit can grow), and trees shelter birds and insects, so we treat them gently.

Who acts: Worms, bees, seeds, trees, we · What happens: keep, pollinate, carry, grow, shelter, treat · To what, where: soil, flowers, pollen, flower, birds

This is a sentence of the lesson «Safe and kind in gardens and forests» 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 (Worms, bees, seeds, 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	Worms	worm	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 keep	nsubj
2	keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	soil	soil	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 keep	obj
4	healthy	healthy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 keep	xcomp
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 pollinate	punct
6	bees	bee	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 pollinate	nsubj
7	pollinate	pollinate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 keep	conj
8	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 pollinate	obj
9	(	(	PUNCT	_	10 carry	punct
10	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 pollinate	parataxis
11	pollen	pollen	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 carry	obj
12	from	from	ADP	_	13 flower	case
13	flower	flower	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 carry	obl
14	to	to	ADP	_	15 flower	case
15	flower	flower	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 carry	obl
16	so	so	ADV	_	21 grow	advmod
17	seeds	seed	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 grow	nsubj
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 fruit	cc
19	fruit	fruit	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 seeds	conj
20	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 grow	aux
21	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 carry	advcl
22	)	)	PUNCT	_	10 carry	punct
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 shelter	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 shelter	cc
25	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 shelter	nsubj
26	shelter	shelter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 keep	conj
27	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 shelter	obj
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 insects	cc
29	insects	insect	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 birds	conj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 treat	punct
31	so	so	ADV	_	33 treat	advmod
32	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	33 treat	nsubj
33	treat	treat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 keep	conj
34	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 treat	obj
35	gently	gently	ADV	_	33 treat	advmod
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 keep	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	keep	present	Worms	soil		healthy property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent soil=Theme
2	pollinate	present	bees	flowers			tree rules
3	carry	infinitive		pollen	flower	to flower	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent pollen=Theme from flower=Initial_Location to flower=Destination
4	grow	can	seeds and fruit				vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	shelter	present	trees	birds and insects			vn concealment-16 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bird=Patient
6	treat	present	we	birds = bird		gently property	vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient

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:229-gardens-and-forests.lesson:3.

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): R1-cc-next ×1, R6-punct-agree ×2. 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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