Plants we eat: roots, stems, leaves, flowers, fruits and seeds, sentence 11

A banana plant is a giant herb, not a tree; shop bananas have no proper seeds, so new plants grow from shoots, and almost all of them are one kind, the Cavendish, which makes them easy prey for one disease.

Who acts: banana plant, shop bananas, new plants, all, Cavendish · What happens: be, have, grow, make · To what, where: giant herb, proper seeds, one kind, seeds

This is a sentence of the lesson «Plants we eat: roots, stems, leaves, flowers, fruits and seeds» 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 (banana plant, shop bananas, new plants, all), 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	3 plant	det
2	banana	banana	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 plant	compound
3	plant	plant	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 herb	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 herb	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 herb	det
6	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 herb	amod
7	herb	herb	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 tree	punct
9	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 tree	advmod
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 tree	det
11	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 herb	conj
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 have	punct
13	shop	shop	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 bananas	compound
14	bananas	banana	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 have	nsubj
15	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 herb	parataxis
16	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	18 seeds	det
17	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 seeds	amod
18	seeds	seed	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 have	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 grow	punct
20	so	so	ADV	_	23 grow	advmod
21	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 plants	amod
22	plants	plant	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 grow	nsubj
23	grow	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 have	conj
24	from	from	ADP	_	25 shoots	case
25	shoots	shoot	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 grow	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 kind	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 kind	cc
28	almost	almost	ADV	_	29 all	advmod
29	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	34 kind	nsubj
30	of	of	ADP	_	31 them	case
31	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 all	nmod
32	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	34 kind	cop
33	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	34 kind	nummod
34	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 herb	conj
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 Cavendish	punct
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 Cavendish	det
37	Cavendish	cavendish	PROPN	Number=Sing	34 kind	appos
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 makes	punct
39	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	40 makes	nsubj
40	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	37 Cavendish	acl:relcl
41	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 makes	obj
42	easy	easy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 prey	amod
43	prey	prey	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 makes	xcomp
44	for	for	ADP	_	46 disease	case
45	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	46 disease	nummod
46	disease	disease	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 prey	nmod
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 herb	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present	a banana plant	a giant herb and a tree and one kind		tree rules
2	have	present	shop bananas	no proper seeds		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent seed=Patient
3	grow	present	new plants		from shoots	vn grow-26.2.1 «NP.product V PP.patient»: agent=Product from shoot=Patient
4	is a	present	all	one kind		tree rules
5	make	present	the Cavendish	seeds = seed		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset they=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:biology:288-plants-we-eat-roots-stems-leaves-flowers-fruits-and-seeds.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): R7-rel-agree ×2, 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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