How plants make their food, sentence 3
So a plant is mostly built from air and water, not from soil: a huge oak tree is made mainly of carbon taken from the air.
What happens: build, make, take · To what, where: plant, air, huge oak tree, carbon
This is a sentence of the lesson «How plants make their food» 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: 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 6 built | advmod |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 plant | det |
| 3 | plant | plant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 built | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 built | aux:pass |
| 5 | mostly | mostly | ADV | _ | 6 built | advmod |
| 6 | built | build | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 air | case |
| 8 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 built | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 water | cc |
| 10 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 air | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 soil | punct |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 soil | advmod |
| 13 | from | from | ADP | _ | 14 soil | case |
| 14 | soil | soil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 air | conj |
| 15 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 21 made | punct |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 tree | det |
| 17 | huge | huge | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 tree | amod |
| 18 | oak | oak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 tree | compound |
| 19 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 made | nsubj:pass |
| 20 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 made | aux:pass |
| 21 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 built | parataxis |
| 22 | mainly | mainly | ADV | _ | 21 made | advmod |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 carbon | case |
| 24 | carbon | carbon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 made | obl |
| 25 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 carbon | acl |
| 26 | from | from | ADP | _ | 28 air | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 air | det |
| 28 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 taken | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 built | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | build | present · passive | a plant | air and water and soil | mostly property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V PP»: subject=Product from air=Material | |||
| 2 | make | present · passive | a huge oak tree | of carbon; mainly property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product | ||||
| 3 | take | participle | carbon not said here | the air | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent from air=Initial_Location |
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:022-photosynthesis.lesson:3.
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. 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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