Air and why we need it, sentence 2
Green plants take in carbon dioxide and, using the energy of sunlight, make their food and give out oxygen.
Who acts: Green plants · What happens: take in, use, make, give out · To what, where: in carbon dioxide, energy, food, oxygen
This is a sentence of the lesson «Air and why we need it» 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 (Green plants), 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 | Green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 plants | amod |
| 2 | plants | plant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 take | nsubj |
| 3 | take | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 dioxide | compound:prt |
| 5 | carbon | carbon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 dioxide | compound |
| 6 | dioxide | dioxide | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 take | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 make | cc |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 and | punct |
| 9 | using | use | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 make | advcl |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 energy | det |
| 11 | energy | energy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 using | obj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 sunlight | case |
| 13 | sunlight | sunlight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 energy | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 using | punct |
| 15 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 take | conj |
| 16 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 food | nmod:poss |
| 17 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 make | obj |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 give | cc |
| 19 | give | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 make | conj |
| 20 | out | out | ADP | _ | 19 give | compound:prt |
| 21 | oxygen | oxygen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 give | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 take | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take in | present | Green plants | in carbon dioxide | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dioxide=Theme | ||||
| 2 | use | gerund | the energy of sunlight | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent energy=Patient | |||||
| 3 | make | present | Green plants not said here | dioxide's food | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset food=Product | ||||
| 4 | give out | present | Green plants not said here | oxygen | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent oxygen=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:017-air-oxygen-carbon-dioxide.lesson:2.
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): R8-pos-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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