Fruit: how apples, bananas, oranges, strawberries and grapes grow, sentence 12
Almost all shop bananas are one kind, Cavendish; an older kind, Gros Michel, was nearly wiped out by a plant disease in the 1950s.
Who acts: shop bananas, plant disease · What happens: be, wipe out · To what, where: one kind, older kind, 1950s
This is a sentence of the lesson «Fruit: how apples, bananas, oranges, strawberries and grapes grow» 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 (shop bananas, plant disease), 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 | Almost | almost | ADV | _ | 2 all | advmod |
| 2 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 bananas | det |
| 3 | shop | shop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 bananas | compound |
| 4 | bananas | banana | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 kind | nsubj |
| 5 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 kind | cop |
| 6 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 kind | nummod |
| 7 | kind | kind | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 Cavendish | punct |
| 9 | Cavendish | cavendish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 kind | conj |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 kind | punct |
| 11 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 kind | det |
| 12 | older | old | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 13 kind | amod |
| 13 | kind | kind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 wiped | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 Gros | punct |
| 15 | Gros | Gros | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 kind | appos |
| 16 | Michel | Michel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Gros | flat |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 kind | punct |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 wiped | aux:pass |
| 19 | nearly | nearly | ADV | _ | 20 wiped | advmod |
| 20 | wiped | wipe | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 kind | parataxis |
| 21 | out | out | ADP | _ | 20 wiped | compound:prt |
| 22 | by | by | ADP | _ | 25 disease | case |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 disease | det |
| 24 | plant | plant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 disease | compound |
| 25 | disease | disease | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 wiped | obl |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 1950s | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 1950s | det |
| 28 | 1950s | 1950 | NOUN | Number=Ptan NumForm=Combi NumType=Card | 20 wiped | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 kind | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | all shop bananas | one kind and Cavendish | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | wipe out | past · passive | a plant disease | a older kind | the 1950s | nearly property | vn funnel-9.3-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent subject=Theme in 1950=Trajectory |
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:346-fruit-how-apples-bananas-oranges-strawberries-and-grapes-grow.lesson:12.
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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