Sugar, chocolate, tea and coffee: the plants behind treats, sentence 1

Sugar comes from the stems of sugar cane, a giant grass taller than a grown-up, or from the pale roots of sugar beet in cool countries.

Who acts: Sugar · What happens: come, grow up, stem · To what, where: stems, sugar cane

This is a sentence of the lesson «Sugar, chocolate, tea and coffee: the plants behind treats» 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 (Sugar), 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	Sugar	sugar	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 comes	nsubj
2	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	from	from	ADP	_	5 stems	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 stems	det
5	stems	stem	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 comes	obl
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 cane	case
7	sugar	sugar	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 cane	compound
8	cane	cane	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 stems	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 taller	punct
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 grass	det
11	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 grass	amod
12	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 taller	nsubj
13	taller	tall	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 comes	advcl
14	than	than	SCONJ	_	16 grown	mark
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 up	det
16	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 taller	advcl
17	-	-	PUNCT	_	18 up	punct
18	up	up	PART	_	16 grown	compound:prt
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 roots	punct
20	or	or	CCONJ	_	24 roots	cc
21	from	from	ADP	_	24 roots	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 roots	det
23	pale	pale	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 roots	amod
24	roots	root	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 comes	obl
25	of	of	ADP	_	27 beet	case
26	sugar	sugar	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 beet	compound
27	beet	beet	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 roots	nmod
28	in	in	ADP	_	30 countries	case
29	cool	cool	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 countries	amod
30	countries	country	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 roots	nmod
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 comes	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	come	present	Sugar		the stems of sugar cane	from the pale roots of sugar beet in cool countries	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme from stem=Initial_Location from root=Destination
2	grow up	participle	Sugar not said here				vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	stem			sugar cane			nom stem «communication transitive»: of=patient

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:347-sugar-chocolate-tea-and-coffee-the-plants-behind-treats.lesson:1.

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): R4-particle ×1, 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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