The vegetable patch: peas, potatoes, tomatoes and slugs, sentence 9

Potatoes that turn green in the light have a bitter poison, and the green part must not be eaten, so potatoes are kept in the dark.

Who acts: Potatoes · What happens: turn, have, not eat, keep · To what, where: light, bitter poison, green part, potatoes, dark

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 (Potatoes), 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	8 have	nsubj
2	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 turn	nsubj
3	turn	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Potatoes	acl:relcl
4	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 turn	xcomp
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 light	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 light	det
7	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 turn	obl
8	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 poison	det
10	bitter	bitter	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 poison	amod
11	poison	poison	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 have	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 eaten	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 eaten	cc
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 part	det
15	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 part	amod
16	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 eaten	nsubj:pass
17	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 eaten	aux
18	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	20 eaten	advmod
19	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	20 eaten	aux:pass
20	eaten	eat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 have	conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 kept	punct
22	so	so	ADV	_	25 kept	advmod
23	potatoes	potato	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 kept	nsubj:pass
24	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 kept	aux:pass
25	kept	keep	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 have	conj
26	in	in	ADP	_	28 dark	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 dark	det
28	dark	dark	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 kept	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 have	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed act=assert

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	turn	present	Potatoes		the light	green property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme in light=Trajectory
2	have	present	Potatoes	a bitter poison			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent poison=Patient
3	not eat	must · passive		the green part			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
4	keep	present · passive		potatoes	the dark		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme in dark=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:9.

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): R3-conj-first ×1, R8-pos-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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