Natural resources and why we must save them, sentence 1

Some resources renew themselves: sunlight and wind come every day, and a forest can grow back if people plant trees and cut no more than grows.

Who acts: resources, sunlight, forest, people · What happens: renew, come, grow back, plant, cut, grow · To what, where: resources, trees, more

This is a sentence of the lesson «Natural resources and why we must save them» 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 (resources, sunlight, forest, people), 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 resources	det
2	resources	resource	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 renew	nsubj
3	renew	renew	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	3 renew	obj
5	:	:	PUNCT	_	6 sunlight	punct
6	sunlight	sunlight	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 come	nsubj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 wind	cc
8	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sunlight	conj
9	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 renew	conj
10	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	11 day	det
11	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 come	obl:unmarked
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 grow	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 grow	cc
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 forest	det
15	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 grow	nsubj
16	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 grow	aux
17	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 come	conj
18	back	back	ADV	_	17 grow	advmod
19	if	if	SCONJ	_	21 plant	mark
20	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 plant	nsubj
21	plant	plant	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 grow	advcl
22	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 plant	obj
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 cut	cc
24	cut	cut	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 plant	conj
25	no	no	ADV	_	26 more	advmod
26	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	24 cut	obj
27	than	than	SCONJ	_	28 grows	mark
28	grows	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 more	advcl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 renew	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	renew	present	some resources	resources = resource		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent themselves=Patient
2	come	present	sunlight and wind		day	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	grow back	can	a forest			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	plant a condition, not said to happen	present	people	trees		vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tree=Patient
5	cut	present	people not said here	more		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset more=Product
6	grow	present	people not said here			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:047-natural-resources.lesson:1.

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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