Siblings, cousins, grandparents — and the whole playground, sentence 10
Banana plants look like trees, but they are giant herbs; the "trunk" is made of tightly rolled leaves.
Who acts: Banana plants, plants · What happens: look, be, make, roll · To what, where: giant herbs, trunk
This is a sentence of the lesson «Siblings, cousins, grandparents — and the whole playground» of the myths 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 (Banana plants, plants), 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 | Banana | banana | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 plants | compound |
| 2 | plants | plant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 look | nsubj |
| 3 | look | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | like | like | ADP | _ | 5 trees | case |
| 5 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 look | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 herbs | punct |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 herbs | cc |
| 8 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 herbs | nsubj |
| 9 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 herbs | cop |
| 10 | giant | giant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 herbs | amod |
| 11 | herbs | herb | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 look | conj |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 3 look | punct |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 trunk | det |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 trunk | punct |
| 15 | trunk | trunk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 made | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 trunk | punct |
| 17 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 made | aux:pass |
| 18 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 look | parataxis |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 leaves | case |
| 20 | tightly | tightly | ADV | _ | 21 rolled | advmod |
| 21 | rolled | roll | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 leaves | amod |
| 22 | leaves | leaf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 made | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 look | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | present | Banana plants | like trees | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | plants = plant | giant herbs | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | make | present · passive | the trunk | of rolled leaves | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product | ||||
| 4 | roll | participle | tightly property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «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:myths:032-siblings-cousins-grandparents-and-the-whole-playground.lesson:10.
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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