Rice, maize and potatoes: the plants that feed the world, sentence 7
They came from the cold Andes mountains of South America, where thousands of purple, red and knobbly kinds still grow.
Who acts: Potatoes, thousands · What happens: come, grow · To what, where: cold Andes mountains
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, thousands), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 came | nsubj |
| 2 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 mountains | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 mountains | det |
| 5 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 mountains | amod |
| 6 | Andes | Andes | PROPN | Number=Plur | 7 mountains | compound |
| 7 | mountains | mountain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 came | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 America | case |
| 9 | South | South | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 America | compound |
| 10 | America | America | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 mountains | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 grow | punct |
| 12 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 22 grow | advmod |
| 13 | thousands | thousand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 grow | nsubj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 kinds | case |
| 15 | purple | purple | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 kinds | amod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 red | punct |
| 17 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 purple | conj |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 knobbly | cc |
| 19 | knobbly | knobbly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 purple | conj |
| 20 | kinds | kind | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 thousands | nmod |
| 21 | still | still | ADV | _ | 22 grow | advmod |
| 22 | grow | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 mountains | acl:relcl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 came | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | Potatoes = potato | the cold Andes mountains of South America | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from mountain=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | grow | present | thousands of purple kinds | still | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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:7.
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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