Flowers, pollination and how seeds travel, sentence 16
Some seeds float on water, like coconuts, and some are shot out when the pod bursts open, like peas and some beans.
Who acts: seeds, pod · What happens: float, shoot out, burst · To what, where: water, some
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 (seeds, pod), 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 | 3 float | nsubj |
| 3 | float | float | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 water | case |
| 5 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 float | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 coconuts | punct |
| 7 | like | like | ADP | _ | 8 coconuts | case |
| 8 | coconuts | coconut | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 float | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 shot | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 shot | cc |
| 11 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 13 shot | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 shot | aux:pass |
| 13 | shot | shoot | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 float | conj |
| 14 | out | out | ADP | _ | 13 shot | compound:prt |
| 15 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 18 bursts | advmod |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 pod | det |
| 17 | pod | pod | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 bursts | nsubj |
| 18 | bursts | burst | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 shot | advcl |
| 19 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 bursts | xcomp |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 peas | punct |
| 21 | like | like | ADP | _ | 22 peas | case |
| 22 | peas | pea | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 shot | obl |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 beans | cc |
| 24 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 25 beans | det |
| 25 | beans | bean | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 peas | conj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 float | 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 | float | present | some seeds | water | like coconuts | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on water=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | shoot out | present · passive | some | like peas and some beans | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 3 | burst | present | the pod | open property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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:16.
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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