Rice, maize and potatoes: the plants that feed the world, sentence 6
Potatoes are not seeds or roots but swollen underground stems.
Who acts: Potatoes · What happens: not be · To what, where: seeds
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), 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 | 4 seeds | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 seeds | cop |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 seeds | advmod |
| 4 | seeds | seed | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 5 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 6 roots | cc |
| 6 | roots | root | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 seeds | conj |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 stems | cc |
| 8 | swollen | swollen | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 stems | amod |
| 9 | underground | underground | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 stems | amod |
| 10 | stems | stem | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 seeds | conj |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 seeds | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is a | present | Potatoes | seeds or roots but swollen underground stems | tree rules |
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:6.
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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