Why living things die, and the circle of life in nature, sentence 7
Many trees drop their leaves in autumn and rest through winter; the leaves die, but the tree lives on.
Who acts: Many trees, leaves, tree · What happens: drop, rest, die, live on · To what, where: leaves
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 (Many trees, leaves, tree), 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 | Many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 trees | amod |
| 2 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 drop | nsubj |
| 3 | drop | drop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 leaves | nmod:poss |
| 5 | leaves | leaf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 drop | obj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 autumn | case |
| 7 | autumn | autumn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 drop | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 rest | cc |
| 9 | rest | rest | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 drop | conj |
| 10 | through | through | ADP | _ | 11 winter | case |
| 11 | winter | winter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 rest | obl |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 die | punct |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 leaves | det |
| 14 | leaves | leaf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 die | nsubj |
| 15 | die | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 drop | parataxis |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 lives | punct |
| 17 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 20 lives | cc |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 tree | det |
| 19 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 lives | nsubj |
| 20 | lives | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 die | conj |
| 21 | on | on | ADP | _ | 20 lives | compound:prt |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 drop | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drop | present | Many trees | faiths's leaves | autumn | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leaf=Theme | |||
| 2 | rest | present | Many trees not said here | winter | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | die | present | the leaves | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 4 | live on | present | the tree | vn exist-47.1-1 «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:religion-ethics:053-why-living-things-die-and-the-circle-of-life.lesson:7.
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 ×2. 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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