--- title: An oak gall forms when a tiny wasp lays an egg in an oak bud and the… — Trees · tree and pragmatics description: An oak gall forms when a tiny wasp lays an egg in an oak bud and the tree grows a ball round it; for centuries people made black ink from oak galls. Who acts: oak gall, tiny wasp, tree, centuries people. A sentence of the lesson «Trees» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its depende --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/60-trees/10/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/) / [Trees](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/60-trees/) / 10 # Trees, sentence 10 An oak gall forms when a tiny wasp lays an egg in an oak bud and the tree grows a ball round it; for centuries people made black ink from oak galls. **Who acts:** oak gall, tiny wasp, tree, centuries people · **What happens:** form, lay, grow, make · **To what, where:** egg, oak bud, ball, black ink, oak galls This is a sentence of the lesson «Trees» of the biology 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 (oak gall, tiny wasp, tree, centuries people), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:060-trees.lesson:10 # text = An oak gall forms when a tiny wasp lays an egg in an oak bud and the tree grows a ball round it; for centuries people made black ink from oak galls. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 060-trees.lesson # annotation = 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 ×3, R7-rel-agree ×3 1 An a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:det 2 oak oak NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 3 gall gall NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:compound 4 forms form VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 9 advmod _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 tiny tiny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 wasp wasp NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 9 lays lay VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 advcl _ _ 10 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 egg egg NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ _ 12 in in ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 13 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 14 oak oak NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 compound _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=15:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 15 bud bud NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 tree tree NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nsubj _ _ 19 grows grow VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 20 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 ball ball NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obj _ _ 22 round round ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 nmod _ _ 24 ; ; PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 25 for for ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 centuries century NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 compound _ _ 27 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 conj _ _ 28 made make VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 27 acl _ _ 29 black black ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 30 ink ink NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obj _ _ 31 from from ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 32 oak oak NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 compound _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=33:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 33 galls gall NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=30:nmod 34 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **form** | present | a oak gall | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **lay** | present | a tiny wasp | a egg | | a oak bud | | | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent egg=Theme in bud=Destination | | 3 | **grow** | present | the tree | a ball | | | | round wasp | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location ball=Theme | | 4 | **make** | participle | centuries people *not said here* | black ink | | oak galls | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V PP»: agent=Asset ink=Product from gall=Material | 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](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:biology:060-trees.lesson:10`. **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 ×3, R7-rel-agree ×3. **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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Trees, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/60-trees/9/) - next →: [Trees, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/60-trees/11/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/60-trees/)