Trees and forests through the year, sentence 11
Thin needles with a waxy coat help evergreen trees lose little water in winter.
Who acts: Thin needles, evergreen trees · What happens: help, lose · To what, where: little water
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 (Thin needles, evergreen trees), 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 | Thin | thin | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 needles | amod |
| 2 | needles | needle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 help | nsubj |
| 3 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 coat | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 coat | det |
| 5 | waxy | waxy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 coat | amod |
| 6 | coat | coat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 needles | nmod |
| 7 | help | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | evergreen | evergreen | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 trees | amod |
| 9 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 lose | nsubj |
| 10 | lose | lose | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 help | xcomp |
| 11 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 water | amod |
| 12 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 lose | obj |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 winter | case |
| 14 | winter | winter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 lose | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 help | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | help | present | Thin needles with a waxy coat | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | lose | infinitive | evergreen trees | little water | winter | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Eventuality |
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:11.
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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