Plants we eat: roots, stems, leaves, flowers, fruits and seeds, sentence 9

To a botanist a fruit is the part that holds the seeds, so tomatoes, cucumbers, peppers and pumpkins are fruits; in 1893 the US Supreme Court still ruled the tomato a vegetable for tax.

Who acts: fruit, part, tomatoes, US Supreme Court · What happens: be, hold, rule · To what, where: part, seeds, fruits, tomato, 1893

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 (fruit, part, tomatoes, US Supreme Court), 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	To	to	ADP	_	3 botanist	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 botanist	det
3	botanist	botanist	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 part	obl
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 fruit	det
5	fruit	fruit	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 part	nsubj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 part	cop
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 part	det
8	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 holds	nsubj
10	holds	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 part	acl:relcl
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 seeds	det
12	seeds	seed	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 holds	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 fruits	punct
14	so	so	ADV	_	23 fruits	advmod
15	tomatoes	tomato	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 fruits	nsubj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 cucumbers	punct
17	cucumbers	cucumber	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 tomatoes	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 peppers	punct
19	peppers	pepper	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 tomatoes	conj
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 pumpkins	cc
21	pumpkins	pumpkin	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 tomatoes	conj
22	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 fruits	cop
23	fruits	fruit	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 part	parataxis
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 1893	punct
25	in	in	ADP	_	26 1893	case
26	1893	1893	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	32 ruled	obl
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 Court	det
28	US	US	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 Court	compound
29	Supreme	Supreme	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 Court	amod
30	Court	Court	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 ruled	nsubj
31	still	still	ADV	_	32 ruled	advmod
32	ruled	rule	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 holds	advcl
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 tomato	det
34	tomato	tomato	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 ruled	obj
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 vegetable	det
36	vegetable	vegetable	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 ruled	obj
37	for	for	ADP	_	38 tax	case
38	tax	tax	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 vegetable	nmod
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 part	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	a fruit	the part			to a botanist	tree rules
2	hold	present	the part	the seeds				vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent seed=Theme
3	is a	present	tomatoes and cucumbers and peppers and pumpkins	fruits				tree rules
4	rule	past	the US Supreme Court	the tomato	1893	still		vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent tomato=Theme vegetable=Result

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:9.

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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