How plants make their food, sentence 8
Most leaves are wide and flat so that they catch as much light as possible.
Who acts: Most leaves, Plants · What happens: be, catch · To what, where: much light
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 (Most leaves, 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 | Most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 2 leaves | amod |
| 2 | leaves | leaf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 wide | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 wide | cop |
| 4 | wide | wide | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 flat | cc |
| 6 | flat | flat | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 wide | conj |
| 7 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 10 catch | mark |
| 8 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 7 so | fixed |
| 9 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 catch | nsubj |
| 10 | catch | catch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 wide | advcl |
| 11 | as | as | ADV | _ | 12 much | advmod |
| 12 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 light | amod |
| 13 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 catch | obj |
| 14 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 15 possible | mark |
| 15 | possible | possible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 catch | advcl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 wide | 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 | is | present | Most leaves | wide property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | Most leaves not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | catch | present | Plants = plant | much light | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: 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:022-photosynthesis.lesson:8.
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): no change. 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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