Plants we eat: roots, stems, leaves, flowers, fruits and seeds, sentence 4
Some surprises hide in the kitchen: a potato is a swollen stem, not a root; a banana is a berry but a strawberry is not; a peanut is not a nut; and chocolate starts as the seeds of a tree.
Who acts: surprises, potato, banana, peanut, chocolate · What happens: hide, be, not be, start · To what, where: kitchen, swollen stem, berry, strawberry, nut
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 (surprises, potato, banana, peanut), 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 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 2 surprises | det |
| 2 | surprises | surprise | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 hide | nsubj |
| 3 | hide | hide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 kitchen | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 kitchen | det |
| 6 | kitchen | kitchen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 hide | obl |
| 7 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 13 stem | punct |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 potato | det |
| 9 | potato | potato | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 stem | nsubj |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 stem | cop |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 stem | det |
| 12 | swollen | swell | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 stem | amod |
| 13 | stem | stem | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 hide | parataxis |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 root | punct |
| 15 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 root | advmod |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 root | det |
| 17 | root | root | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 stem | conj |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 berry | punct |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 banana | det |
| 20 | banana | banana | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 berry | nsubj |
| 21 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 berry | cop |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 berry | det |
| 23 | berry | berry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 stem | conj |
| 24 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 23 berry | cc |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 strawberry | det |
| 26 | strawberry | strawberry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 stem | conj |
| 27 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 strawberry | cop |
| 28 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 26 strawberry | advmod |
| 29 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 35 nut | punct |
| 30 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 peanut | det |
| 31 | peanut | peanut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 nut | nsubj |
| 32 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 35 nut | cop |
| 33 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 35 nut | advmod |
| 34 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 35 nut | det |
| 35 | nut | nut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 stem | conj |
| 36 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 39 starts | punct |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 starts | cc |
| 38 | chocolate | chocolate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 starts | nsubj |
| 39 | starts | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 stem | conj |
| 40 | as | as | ADP | _ | 42 seeds | case |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 seeds | det |
| 42 | seeds | seed | NOUN | Number=Plur | 39 starts | obl |
| 43 | of | of | ADP | _ | 45 tree | case |
| 44 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 45 tree | det |
| 45 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 seeds | nmod |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 hide | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hide | present | some surprises | the kitchen | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in kitchen=Location | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | a potato | a swollen stem and a root but a berry and a strawberry and a nut | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is a | present | a banana | a berry | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | not is a | present | a potato not said here | a strawberry | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | not is a | present | a peanut | a nut | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | start | present | chocolate | as the seeds of a tree | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=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:biology:288-plants-we-eat-roots-stems-leaves-flowers-fruits-and-seeds.lesson:4.
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 ×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.
See the release 0.4.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/288-plants-we-eat-roots-stems-leaves-flowers-fruits-and-seeds/4/