Rice, maize and potatoes: the plants that feed the world, sentence 20
Potatoes are cousins of tomatoes, peppers and aubergines; the small green fruits on a potato plant look like little tomatoes but are poisonous, and farmers grow potatoes from seed potatoes.
Who acts: Potatoes, small green fruits, farmers · What happens: be, look, grow · To what, where: cousins, potatoes, seed potatoes
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 (Potatoes, small green fruits, farmers), 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 cousins | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 cousins | cop |
| 3 | cousins | cousin | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 tomatoes | case |
| 5 | tomatoes | tomato | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 cousins | nmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 peppers | punct |
| 7 | peppers | pepper | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 tomatoes | conj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 aubergines | cc |
| 9 | aubergines | aubergine | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 tomatoes | conj |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 fruits | punct |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 fruits | det |
| 12 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 fruits | amod |
| 13 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 fruits | amod |
| 14 | fruits | fruit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 look | nsubj |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 18 plant | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 plant | det |
| 17 | potato | potato | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 plant | compound |
| 18 | plant | plant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 fruits | nmod |
| 19 | look | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 cousins | parataxis |
| 20 | like | like | ADP | _ | 22 tomatoes | case |
| 21 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 tomatoes | amod |
| 22 | tomatoes | tomato | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 look | obl |
| 23 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 25 poisonous | cc |
| 24 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 poisonous | cop |
| 25 | poisonous | poisonous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 look | conj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 grow | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 grow | cc |
| 28 | farmers | farmer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 grow | nsubj |
| 29 | grow | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 cousins | conj |
| 30 | potatoes | potato | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 grow | obj |
| 31 | from | from | ADP | _ | 33 potatoes | case |
| 32 | seed | seed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 potatoes | compound |
| 33 | potatoes | potato | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 grow | obl |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 cousins | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed polarity=none
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Potatoes | cousins | of tomatoes and peppers and aubergines | tree rules | |||
| 2 | look | present | the small green fruits on a potato plant | like little tomatoes | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | is | present | the small green fruits on a potato plant not said here | poisonous property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | grow | present | farmers | potatoes | seed potatoes | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP.product PP.material»: agent=Agent potato=Product from potato=Material |
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:20.
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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