Food from around the world: how crops travelled the globe, sentence 12
Olives are bitter on the tree and must be soaked or cured before eating, and some olive trees are over a thousand years old.
Who acts: Olives, olive trees · What happens: be, soak, cure, eat · To what, where: tree
This is a sentence of the lesson «Food from around the world: how crops travelled the globe» 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 (Olives, olive trees), 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 | Olives | olive | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 bitter | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 bitter | cop |
| 3 | bitter | bitter | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 tree | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 tree | det |
| 6 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 bitter | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 soaked | cc |
| 8 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 soaked | aux |
| 9 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 10 soaked | aux:pass |
| 10 | soaked | soak | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 bitter | conj |
| 11 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 12 cured | cc |
| 12 | cured | cure | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 soaked | conj |
| 13 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 14 eating | mark |
| 14 | eating | eat | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 cured | advcl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 old | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 old | cc |
| 17 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 19 trees | det |
| 18 | olive | olive | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 trees | compound |
| 19 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 old | nsubj |
| 20 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 old | cop |
| 21 | over | over | ADP | _ | 24 years | case |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 thousand | det |
| 23 | thousand | thousand | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 24 years | nummod |
| 24 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 old | obl:unmarked |
| 25 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 bitter | conj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 bitter | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Olives | the tree | bitter property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | soak | must · passive | Olives not said here | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V» | |||||
| 3 | cure | participle | Olives not said here | vn free-10.6.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer | |||||
| 4 | eat | gerund | Olives not said here | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | is | present | some olive trees | year | old property | tree rules |
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:289-food-from-around-the-world-how-crops-travelled-the-globe.lesson:12.
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.
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