The big biology quiz, part 3: dinosaurs, evolution, conservation and food, sentence 18
A tomato grows from a flower and holds seeds, so botanists call it a fruit, while cooks call it a vegetable; a potato is a swollen stem, a carrot is a root and broccoli is a bunch of flower buds.
Who acts: tomato, botanists, cooks, potato, carrot, broccoli · What happens: grow, hold, call, be · To what, where: seeds, tomato, swollen stem, root, bunch · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «The big biology quiz, part 3: dinosaurs, evolution, conservation and food» 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 (tomato, botanists, cooks, potato), 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 | 2 tomato | det |
| 2 | tomato | tomato | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 grows | nsubj |
| 3 | grows | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 6 flower | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 flower | det |
| 6 | flower | flower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 grows | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 holds | cc |
| 8 | holds | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 grows | conj |
| 9 | seeds | seed | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 holds | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 call | punct |
| 11 | so | so | ADV | _ | 13 call | advmod |
| 12 | botanists | botanist | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 call | nsubj |
| 13 | call | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 grows | conj |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 call | obj |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 fruit | det |
| 16 | fruit | fruit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 call | xcomp |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 call | punct |
| 18 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 20 call | mark |
| 19 | cooks | cook | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 call | nsubj |
| 20 | call | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 call | advcl |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 call | obj |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 vegetable | det |
| 23 | vegetable | vegetable | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 call | xcomp |
| 24 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 30 stem | punct |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 potato | det |
| 26 | potato | potato | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 stem | nsubj |
| 27 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 stem | cop |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 stem | det |
| 29 | swollen | swell | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 stem | amod |
| 30 | stem | stem | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 grows | parataxis |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 root | punct |
| 32 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 carrot | det |
| 33 | carrot | carrot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 root | nsubj |
| 34 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 36 root | cop |
| 35 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 36 root | det |
| 36 | root | root | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 stem | parataxis |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 bunch | cc |
| 38 | broccoli | broccoli | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 bunch | nsubj |
| 39 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 41 bunch | cop |
| 40 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 41 bunch | det |
| 41 | bunch | bunch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 root | conj |
| 42 | of | of | ADP | _ | 44 buds | case |
| 43 | flower | flower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 buds | compound |
| 44 | buds | bud | NOUN | Number=Plur | 41 bunch | nmod |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 grows | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | present | a tomato | from a flower | vn grow-26.2.1 «NP.product V PP.patient»: agent=Product from flower=Patient | ||||
| 2 | hold | present | a tomato not said here | seeds | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent seed=Theme | ||||
| 3 | call | present | botanists | tomato | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | call | present | cooks | tomato | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Recipient | ||||
| 5 | is a | present | a potato | a swollen stem | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | is a | present | a carrot | a root and a bunch | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | is a | present | broccoli | a bunch | of flower buds | 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:300-the-big-biology-quiz-part-3-dinosaurs-evolution-conservation-and-food.lesson:18.
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): R2-punct-next ×1, R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3. 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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