Sleep and the body clock, sentence 8
Almost all living things keep time like this, even flowers that open in the morning and close in the evening.
Who acts: living things, flowers · What happens: live, keep, open, close
This is a sentence of the lesson «Sleep and the body clock» of the world 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 (living things, flowers), 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 | Almost | almost | ADV | _ | 2 all | advmod |
| 2 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 things | det |
| 3 | living | live | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 things | amod |
| 4 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 keep | nsubj |
| 5 | keep | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 keep | obj |
| 7 | like | like | ADP | _ | 8 this | case |
| 8 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 time | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 flowers | punct |
| 10 | even | even | ADV | _ | 11 flowers | advmod |
| 11 | flowers | flower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 time | parataxis |
| 12 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 open | nsubj |
| 13 | open | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 flowers | acl:relcl |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 morning | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 morning | det |
| 16 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 open | obl |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 close | cc |
| 18 | close | close | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 open | conj |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 evening | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 evening | det |
| 21 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 close | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 keep | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | gerund | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | keep | present | all living things | time | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | open | present | flowers | morning | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | close | present | flowers not said here | evening | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=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:world:127-sleep-and-the-body-clock.lesson:8.
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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