The vegetable patch: peas, potatoes, tomatoes and slugs, sentence 11

Scientists call a tomato a fruit because it holds seeds, it turns red as it ripens by making a red colour called lycopene, and tomatoes first came from South America.

Who acts: Scientists, tomato, it, red colour, tomatoes · What happens: call, hold, turn, ripen, make, come · To what, where: tomato, seeds, red colour, lycopene, South America · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Scientists, tomato, it, red colour), 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	Scientists	scientist	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 call	nsubj
2	call	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 tomato	det
4	tomato	tomato	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 call	obj
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 fruit	det
6	fruit	fruit	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 call	xcomp
7	because	because	SCONJ	_	9 holds	mark
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 holds	nsubj
9	holds	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 call	advcl
10	seeds	seed	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 holds	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 turns	punct
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 turns	nsubj
13	turns	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 holds	conj
14	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 turns	xcomp
15	as	as	SCONJ	_	17 ripens	mark
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 ripens	nsubj
17	ripens	ripen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 turns	advcl
18	by	by	SCONJ	_	19 making	mark
19	making	make	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 ripens	advcl
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 colour	det
21	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 colour	amod
22	colour	colour	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 making	obj
23	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 colour	acl
24	lycopene	lycopene	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 called	xcomp
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 came	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 came	cc
27	tomatoes	tomato	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 came	nsubj
28	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	29 came	advmod
29	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 holds	conj
30	from	from	ADP	_	32 America	case
31	South	South	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 America	compound
32	America	America	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 came	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 call	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	call	present	Scientists	a tomato			vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent tomato=Recipient
2	hold	present	tomato	seeds			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent seed=Theme
3	turn	present	it			red property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
4	ripen	present	tomato				vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
5	make	gerund	tomato not said here	a red colour			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset colour=Product
6	call	participle	a red colour not said here	lycopene			vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	come	past	tomatoes		South America	first property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from america=Initial_Location

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:11.

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): no change. 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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