Plants we eat: roots, stems, leaves, flowers, fruits and seeds, sentence 17

Chillies contain capsaicin, which makes the mouth feel heat; birds do not feel it and spread chilli seeds, and milk calms the burn better than water.

Who acts: Chillies, capsaicin, heat, birds, milk · What happens: contain, make, feel, not feel, spread, calm · To what, where: capsaicin, heat, chilli seeds, burn

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 (Chillies, capsaicin, heat, birds), 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	Chillies	chilli	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 contain	nsubj
2	contain	contain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	capsaicin	capsaicin	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 contain	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 makes	punct
5	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 makes	nsubj
6	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 capsaicin	acl:relcl
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 mouth	det
8	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 feel	compound
9	feel	feel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 makes	xcomp
10	heat	heat	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 makes	obj
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 feel	punct
12	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 feel	nsubj
13	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 feel	aux
14	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	15 feel	advmod
15	feel	feel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 makes	conj
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 feel	obj
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 spread	cc
18	spread	spread	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 feel	conj
19	chilli	chilli	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 seeds	compound
20	seeds	seed	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 spread	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 calms	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 calms	cc
23	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 calms	nsubj
24	calms	calm	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 contain	conj
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 burn	det
26	burn	burn	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 calms	obj
27	better	good	ADV	Degree=Cmp	24 calms	advmod
28	than	than	ADP	_	29 water	case
29	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 better	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 contain	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	contain	present	Chillies	capsaicin		vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot capsaicin=Theme
2	make	present	capsaicin	heat		tree rules
3	feel	infinitive	heat not said here			vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
4	not feel	present · do-support	birds	heat		vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
5	spread	infinitive	birds not said here	chilli seeds		vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location seed=Theme
6	calm	present	milk	the burn	good property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus burn=Experiencer

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:17.

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 ×2. 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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