Flowers, pollination and how seeds travel, sentence 4
Seeds must travel away from their parent, so the young plants do not compete with it for light and water: dandelion seeds fly on little parachutes, burdock burrs hook onto fur, coconuts float, and berries are eaten by birds and dropped far away.
Who acts: Seeds, young plants, dandelion seeds, burdock burrs, coconuts, birds · What happens: travel, not compete, fly, hook, float, eat · To what, where: little parachutes, fur, berries
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, young plants, dandelion seeds, burdock burrs), 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 | Seeds | seed | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 travel | nsubj |
| 2 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 travel | aux |
| 3 | travel | travel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | away | away | ADV | _ | 3 travel | advmod |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 parent | case |
| 6 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 parent | nmod:poss |
| 7 | parent | parent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 away | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 compete | punct |
| 9 | so | so | ADV | _ | 15 compete | advmod |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 plants | det |
| 11 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 plants | amod |
| 12 | plants | plant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 compete | nsubj |
| 13 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 compete | aux |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 compete | advmod |
| 15 | compete | compete | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 travel | advcl |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 it | case |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 compete | obl |
| 18 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 light | case |
| 19 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 compete | obl |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 water | cc |
| 21 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 light | conj |
| 22 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 25 fly | punct |
| 23 | dandelion | dandelion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 seeds | compound |
| 24 | seeds | seed | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 fly | nsubj |
| 25 | fly | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 travel | parataxis |
| 26 | on | on | ADP | _ | 28 parachutes | case |
| 27 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 parachutes | amod |
| 28 | parachutes | parachute | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 fly | obl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 hook | punct |
| 30 | burdock | burdock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 burrs | compound |
| 31 | burrs | burr | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 hook | nsubj |
| 32 | hook | hook | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 travel | advcl |
| 33 | onto | onto | ADP | _ | 34 fur | case |
| 34 | fur | fur | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 hook | obl |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 float | punct |
| 36 | coconuts | coconut | NOUN | Number=Plur | 37 float | nsubj |
| 37 | float | float | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 32 hook | conj |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 eaten | punct |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 42 eaten | cc |
| 40 | berries | berry | NOUN | Number=Plur | 42 eaten | nsubj |
| 41 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 42 eaten | aux:pass |
| 42 | eaten | eat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 travel | advcl |
| 43 | by | by | ADP | _ | 44 birds | case |
| 44 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 42 eaten | obl |
| 45 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 46 dropped | cc |
| 46 | dropped | drop | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 42 eaten | conj |
| 47 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 48 away | advmod |
| 48 | away | away | ADV | _ | 46 dropped | advmod |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 travel | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | travel | must | Seeds | away property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | not compete | present · do-support | the young plants | with parent; for light and water | vn battle-36.4 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with it=Co-Agent | ||||
| 3 | fly | present | dandelion seeds | little parachutes | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on parachute=Location | ||||
| 4 | hook | present | burdock burrs | fur | vn coil-9.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme onto fur=Destination | ||||
| 5 | float | present | coconuts | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | eat | present · passive | birds | berries | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient | ||||
| 7 | drop | participle | birds not said here | away property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme 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:4.
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): R8-pos-agree ×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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