Life begins: being born and growing up, sentence 11
A seed is not dead: it holds a tiny resting plant and a store of food, and water and warmth wake it up.
Who acts: seed, water · What happens: not be, hold, wake up · To what, where: tiny resting plant, seed
This is a sentence of the lesson «Life begins: being born and growing up» of the religion ethics 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 (seed, water), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 seed | det |
| 2 | seed | seed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 dead | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 dead | cop |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 dead | advmod |
| 5 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 8 holds | punct |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 holds | nsubj |
| 8 | holds | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 dead | parataxis |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 plant | det |
| 10 | tiny | tiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 plant | amod |
| 11 | resting | resting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 plant | compound |
| 12 | plant | plant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 holds | obj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 store | cc |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 store | det |
| 15 | store | store | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 plant | conj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 food | case |
| 17 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 store | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 wake | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 wake | cc |
| 20 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 wake | nsubj |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 warmth | cc |
| 22 | warmth | warmth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 water | conj |
| 23 | wake | wake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 dead | conj |
| 24 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 wake | obj |
| 25 | up | up | ADP | _ | 23 wake | compound:prt |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 dead | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | present | a seed | dead property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | hold | present | seed | a tiny resting plant and a store of food | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plant=Theme | ||||
| 3 | wake up | present | water and warmth | seed | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
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:religion-ethics:051-life-begins-being-born-and-growing-up.lesson:11.
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): R3-conj-first ×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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