Trees and forests through the year, sentence 0

A tree is a large plant with a woody trunk; each year it grows a new layer of wood under its bark, which we can see as a ring when the tree is cut.

Who acts: tree, we · What happens: be, grow, see, cut · To what, where: large plant, new layer, bark, tree

This is a sentence of the lesson «Trees and forests through the year» 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 (tree, we), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 tree	det
2	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 plant	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 plant	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 plant	det
5	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 plant	amod
6	plant	plant	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	with	with	ADP	_	10 trunk	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 trunk	det
9	woody	woody	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 trunk	amod
10	trunk	trunk	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 plant	nmod
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 grows	punct
12	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	13 year	det
13	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 grows	obl:unmarked
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 grows	nsubj
15	grows	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 plant	parataxis
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 layer	det
17	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 layer	amod
18	layer	layer	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 grows	obj
19	of	of	ADP	_	20 wood	case
20	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 layer	nmod
21	under	under	ADP	_	23 bark	case
22	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 bark	nmod:poss
23	bark	bark	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 grows	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 see	punct
25	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	28 see	obj
26	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	28 see	nsubj
27	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 see	aux
28	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 layer	acl:relcl
29	as	as	ADP	_	31 ring	case
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 ring	det
31	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 see	obl
32	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	36 cut	advmod
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 tree	det
34	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 cut	nsubj
35	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	36 cut	aux:pass
36	cut	cut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	28 see	advcl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 plant	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	a tree	a large plant			with a woody trunk	tree rules
2	grow	present	tree	a new layer of wood	tree's bark	year		vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location layer=Theme
3	see	can	we	a new layer of wood			as a ring	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer which=Stimulus as ring=Attribute
4	cut	present · passive		the tree				vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product

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:076-trees-and-forests-through-the-year.lesson:0.

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): R5-strong ×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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