Parts of a plant and what each does, sentence 7
The stem holds up the leaves and flowers so they can reach the light.
Who acts: stem, roots · What happens: hold up, reach · To what, where: leaves, light
This is a sentence of the lesson «Parts of a plant and what each does» 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 (stem, roots), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 stem | det |
| 2 | stem | stem | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 holds | nsubj |
| 3 | holds | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 holds | compound:prt |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 leaves | det |
| 6 | leaves | leaf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 holds | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 flowers | cc |
| 8 | flowers | flower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 leaves | conj |
| 9 | so | so | SCONJ | _ | 12 reach | mark |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 reach | nsubj |
| 11 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 reach | aux |
| 12 | reach | reach | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 holds | advcl |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 light | det |
| 14 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 reach | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 holds | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hold up | present | the stem | the leaves and flowers | vn support-15.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot leaf=Theme | ||||
| 2 | reach | can | roots = root | the light | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent light=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:021-parts-of-a-plant.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): R1-cc-next ×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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