Rice, maize and potatoes: the plants that feed the world, sentence 19
A potato turned green in the light has also made a bitter natural poison called solanine, so green parts and sprouts should be cut away and potatoes stored in the dark.
Who acts: potato, bitter natural poison · What happens: turn, make, call, cut away, store · To what, where: potato, light, bitter natural poison, solanine, green parts, potatoes · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Rice, maize and potatoes: the plants that feed the world» 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, bitter natural poison), 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 potato | det |
| 2 | potato | potato | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 made | nsubj |
| 3 | turned | turn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 2 potato | acl |
| 4 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 turned | 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 turned | obl |
| 8 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 made | aux |
| 9 | also | also | ADV | _ | 10 made | advmod |
| 10 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 poison | det |
| 12 | bitter | bitter | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 poison | amod |
| 13 | natural | natural | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 poison | amod |
| 14 | poison | poison | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 made | obj |
| 15 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 poison | acl |
| 16 | solanine | solanine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 called | xcomp |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 cut | punct |
| 18 | so | so | ADV | _ | 25 cut | advmod |
| 19 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 parts | amod |
| 20 | parts | part | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 cut | nsubj:pass |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 sprouts | cc |
| 22 | sprouts | sprout | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 parts | conj |
| 23 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 cut | aux |
| 24 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 25 cut | aux:pass |
| 25 | cut | cut | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 made | conj |
| 26 | away | away | ADV | _ | 25 cut | advmod |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 potatoes | cc |
| 28 | potatoes | potato | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 cut | conj |
| 29 | stored | store | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 28 potatoes | acl |
| 30 | in | in | ADP | _ | 32 dark | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 dark | det |
| 32 | dark | dark | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 stored | obl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 made | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn | participle | a potato not said here | the light | green property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme in light=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | make | present · perfect | a potato | a bitter natural poison | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset poison=Product | ||||
| 3 | call | participle | a bitter natural poison not said here | solanine | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | cut away | should · passive | green parts and sprouts | away property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product | ||||
| 5 | store | participle | potatoes not said here | the dark | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent 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:345-rice-maize-and-potatoes-the-plants-that-feed-the-world.lesson:19.
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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