Big kids, little kids and the truth at home, sentence 34
Swallowing a watermelon seed does not grow a watermelon inside you; the seed simply passes through.
Who acts: Swallowing, seed · What happens: swallow, not grow, pass through · To what, where: watermelon seed, watermelon
This is a sentence of the lesson «Big kids, little kids and the truth at home» 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 (Swallowing, seed), 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 | Swallowing | swallow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 grow | csubj |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 seed | det |
| 3 | watermelon | watermelon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 seed | compound |
| 4 | seed | seed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Swallowing | obj |
| 5 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 grow | aux |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 grow | advmod |
| 7 | grow | grow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 watermelon | det |
| 9 | watermelon | watermelon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 grow | obj |
| 10 | inside | inside | ADP | _ | 11 you | case |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 grow | obl |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 passes | punct |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 seed | det |
| 14 | seed | seed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 passes | nsubj |
| 15 | simply | simply | ADV | _ | 16 passes | advmod |
| 16 | passes | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 grow | parataxis |
| 17 | through | through | ADV | _ | 16 passes | advmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 grow | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | swallow | gerund | a watermelon seed | vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent seed=Patient | |||||
| 2 | not grow | present · do-support | Swallowing | a watermelon | inside you | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location watermelon=Theme | |||
| 3 | pass through | present | the seed | simply, through property | vn occur-48.3-1 «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:everyday:433-big-kids-little-kids-and-the-truth-at-home.lesson:34.
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): R5-strong ×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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