Life cycles, sentence 17
Most seeds do not need light to germinate, because they use their own food store at first.
Who acts: Most seeds, pods · What happens: not need, germinate, use · To what, where: light, own food store
This is a sentence of the lesson «Life cycles» 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 seeds, pods), 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 seeds | amod |
| 2 | seeds | seed | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 need | nsubj |
| 3 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 need | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 need | advmod |
| 5 | need | need | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 need | obj |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 germinate | mark |
| 8 | germinate | germinate | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 light | acl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 use | punct |
| 10 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 12 use | mark |
| 11 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 use | nsubj |
| 12 | use | use | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 need | advcl |
| 13 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 store | nmod:poss |
| 14 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 store | amod |
| 15 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 store | compound |
| 16 | store | store | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 use | obj |
| 17 | at | at | ADP | _ | 18 first | case |
| 18 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 12 use | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 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 | not need | present · do-support | Most seeds | light | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot light=Theme | ||||
| 2 | germinate | to-infinitive | Most seeds not said here | light not said here | vn entity_specific_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | use | present | pods = pod | pods's own food store | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent store=Patient |
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:025-life-cycles.lesson:17.
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.
See the release 0.4.
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