How plants make their food, sentence 6
Plants need light, water and carbon dioxide to make food.
Who acts: Plants · What happens: need, make · To what, where: light, food
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: who acts (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 | Plants | plant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 need | nsubj |
| 2 | need | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 need | obj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 water | punct |
| 5 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 light | conj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 dioxide | cc |
| 7 | carbon | carbon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 dioxide | compound |
| 8 | dioxide | dioxide | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 light | conj |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 make | mark |
| 10 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 need | advcl |
| 11 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 make | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 need | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | need | present | Plants | light and water and carbon dioxide | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot light=Theme | ||||
| 2 | make | to-infinitive | Plants not said here | food | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset food=Product |
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:6.
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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