Fuels, the Sun and saving energy, sentence 15
Plants grow towards light because their leaves need it to make food, storing the energy as sugar.
Who acts: Plants, leaves, light · What happens: grow, need, make, store · To what, where: light, food, energy
This is a sentence of the lesson «Fuels, the Sun and saving energy» of the physics 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 (Plants, leaves, light), 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 | Plants | plant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 grow | nsubj |
| 2 | grow | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 4 light | case |
| 4 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 grow | obl |
| 5 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 8 need | mark |
| 6 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 leaves | nmod:poss |
| 7 | leaves | leaf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 need | nsubj |
| 8 | need | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 grow | advcl |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 need | obj |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 make | mark |
| 11 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 need | xcomp |
| 12 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 make | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 storing | punct |
| 14 | storing | store | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 make | advcl |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 energy | det |
| 16 | energy | energy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 storing | obj |
| 17 | as | as | ADP | _ | 18 sugar | case |
| 18 | sugar | sugar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 storing | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 grow | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | present | Plants | towards light | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | need | present | Plants's leaves | light | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | make not said to happen | to-infinitive | light not said here | food | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset food=Product | ||||
| 4 | store | gerund | light not said here | the energy | as sugar | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent energy=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:physics:032-fuels-the-sun-and-saving-energy.lesson:15.
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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