The vegetable patch: peas, potatoes, tomatoes and slugs, sentence 10

Potato plants grow small green berries that look like little tomatoes but are poisonous; potatoes and tomatoes are close relatives, and only the potato underground is eaten.

Who acts: Potato plants, small green berries · What happens: grow, look, be, eat · To what, where: small green berries, close relatives, potato underground

This is a sentence of the lesson «The vegetable patch: peas, potatoes, tomatoes and slugs» 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 (Potato plants, small green berries), 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	Potato	potato	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 plants	compound
2	plants	plant	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 grow	nsubj
3	grow	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 berries	amod
5	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 berries	amod
6	berries	berry	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 grow	obj
7	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 look	nsubj
8	look	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 berries	acl:relcl
9	like	like	ADP	_	11 tomatoes	case
10	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 tomatoes	amod
11	tomatoes	tomato	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 look	obl
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 poisonous	cc
13	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 poisonous	cop
14	poisonous	poisonous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 look	conj
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 potatoes	punct
16	potatoes	potato	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 berries	conj
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 relatives	cc
18	tomatoes	tomato	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 potatoes	conj
19	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 relatives	cop
20	close	close	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 relatives	amod
21	relatives	relative	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 potatoes	conj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 eaten	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 eaten	cc
24	only	only	ADV	_	27 underground	advmod
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 underground	det
26	potato	potato	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 underground	compound
27	underground	underground	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 eaten	nsubj:pass
28	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 eaten	aux:pass
29	eaten	eat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 berries	conj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 grow	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	grow	present	Potato plants	small green berries and potatoes and tomatoes and close relatives		vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location berry=Theme
2	look	present	small green berries and potatoes and tomatoes and close relatives		like little tomatoes	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
3	is	present	small green berries and potatoes and tomatoes and close relatives not said here		poisonous property	tree rules
4	is a	present	Potato plants not said here	close relatives		tree rules
5	eat	present · passive		the potato underground		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

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:338-the-vegetable-patch-peas-potatoes-tomatoes-and-slugs.lesson:10.

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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