The vegetable patch: peas, potatoes, tomatoes and slugs, sentence 8
Potatoes are swollen underground stems that store food, and the eyes on a potato are buds that can grow into new plants.
Who acts: underground stems, eyes, buds · What happens: swell, store, be, grow · To what, where: Potatoes, food, buds, new plants
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 (underground stems, eyes, buds), 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 | Potatoes | potato | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 swollen | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 swollen | aux:pass |
| 3 | swollen | swell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | underground | underground | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 stems | amod |
| 5 | stems | stem | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 swollen | obj |
| 6 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 store | nsubj |
| 7 | store | store | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 stems | acl:relcl |
| 8 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 store | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 buds | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 buds | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 eyes | det |
| 12 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 buds | nsubj |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 potato | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 potato | det |
| 15 | potato | potato | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 eyes | nmod |
| 16 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 buds | cop |
| 17 | buds | bud | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 swollen | conj |
| 18 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 grow | nsubj |
| 19 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 grow | aux |
| 20 | grow | grow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 buds | acl:relcl |
| 21 | into | into | ADP | _ | 23 plants | case |
| 22 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 plants | amod |
| 23 | plants | plant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 grow | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 swollen | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | swell | present · passive | Potatoes | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | store | present | underground stems | food | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is a | present | the eyes on a potato | buds | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | grow | can | buds | into new plants result | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into plant=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:338-the-vegetable-patch-peas-potatoes-tomatoes-and-slugs.lesson:8.
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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