The rumour that grows, sentence 23
A swallowed cherry stone usually just passes through the body; trees need soil and light, not a tummy.
Who acts: swallowed cherry stone, trees · What happens: swallow, pass, need · To what, where: body, soil
This is a sentence of the lesson «The rumour that grows» 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 (swallowed cherry stone, trees), 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 | 4 stone | det |
| 2 | swallowed | swallow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 stone | amod |
| 3 | cherry | cherry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 stone | compound |
| 4 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 passes | nsubj |
| 5 | usually | usually | ADV | _ | 7 passes | advmod |
| 6 | just | just | ADV | _ | 7 passes | advmod |
| 7 | passes | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | through | through | ADP | _ | 10 body | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 body | det |
| 10 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 passes | obl |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 need | punct |
| 12 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 need | nsubj |
| 13 | need | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 passes | parataxis |
| 14 | soil | soil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 need | obj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 light | cc |
| 16 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 soil | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 tummy | punct |
| 18 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 20 tummy | advmod |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 tummy | det |
| 20 | tummy | tummy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 soil | conj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 passes | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | swallow | participle | vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | pass | present | a swallowed cherry stone | the body | usually property | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme through body=Location | |||
| 3 | need | present | trees | soil and light and a tummy | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot soil=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:world:167-the-rumour-that-grows.lesson:23.
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): R2-punct-next ×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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