Flowers, pollination and how seeds travel, sentence 13
Some seeds are carried by the wind, like dandelion and maple seeds.
Who acts: wind · What happens: carry · To what, where: seeds
This is a sentence of the lesson «Flowers, pollination and how seeds travel» 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 (wind), 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 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 2 seeds | det |
| 2 | seeds | seed | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 carried | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 carried | aux:pass |
| 4 | carried | carry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | by | by | ADP | _ | 7 wind | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 wind | det |
| 7 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 carried | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 seeds | punct |
| 9 | like | like | ADP | _ | 13 seeds | case |
| 10 | dandelion | dandelion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 seeds | compound |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 maple | cc |
| 12 | maple | maple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 dandelion | conj |
| 13 | seeds | seed | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 carried | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 carried | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | carry | present · passive | the wind | some seeds | like dandelion seeds | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=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:023-flowers-and-seeds.lesson:13.
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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