Why living things die, and the circle of life in nature, sentence 11
Sunflowers live for one summer: they grow, flower, make seeds and die, which is their natural life.
Who acts: Sunflowers, hunting · What happens: live, grow, flower, make, die, be · To what, where: seeds, natural life
This is a sentence of the lesson «Why living things die, and the circle of life in nature» 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 (Sunflowers, hunting), 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 | Sunflowers | sunflower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 live | nsubj |
| 2 | live | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | for | for | ADP | _ | 5 summer | case |
| 4 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 summer | nummod |
| 5 | summer | summer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 live | obl |
| 6 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 8 grow | punct |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 grow | nsubj |
| 8 | grow | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 live | parataxis |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 flower | punct |
| 10 | flower | flower | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 grow | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 make | punct |
| 12 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 grow | conj |
| 13 | seeds | seed | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 make | obj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 die | cc |
| 15 | die | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 grow | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 life | punct |
| 17 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 life | nsubj |
| 18 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 life | cop |
| 19 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 life | nmod:poss |
| 20 | natural | natural | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 life | amod |
| 21 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 die | acl:relcl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 live | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | present | Sunflowers | summer | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | grow | present | hunting | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | flower | hunting not said here | vn entity_specific_modes_being-47.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | make | present | hunting not said here | seeds | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset seed=Product | ||||
| 5 | die | present | hunting not said here | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 6 | is a | present | hunting's natural life | tree rules |
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:053-why-living-things-die-and-the-circle-of-life.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. 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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