Sugar, chocolate, tea and coffee: the plants behind treats, sentence 10

Sugar cane is a giant grass that stores sugar in its stems; the stems are crushed for juice, which is boiled until sugar crystals form, and Brazil and India grow the most.

Who acts: Sugar cane, giant grass, sugar crystals, Brazil, cane · What happens: be, store, crush, boil, form, grow · To what, where: giant grass, sugar, stems, juice

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 cane, giant grass, sugar crystals, Brazil), 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 cane	compound
2	cane	cane	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 grass	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 grass	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 grass	det
5	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 grass	amod
6	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 stores	nsubj
8	stores	store	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 grass	acl:relcl
9	sugar	sugar	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 stores	obj
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 stems	case
11	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 stems	nmod:poss
12	stems	stem	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 stores	obl
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 crushed	punct
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 stems	det
15	stems	stem	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 crushed	nsubj:pass
16	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 crushed	aux:pass
17	crushed	crush	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 grass	parataxis
18	for	for	ADP	_	19 juice	case
19	juice	juice	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 crushed	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 boiled	punct
21	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 boiled	nsubj:pass
22	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 boiled	aux:pass
23	boiled	boil	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 juice	acl:relcl
24	until	until	SCONJ	_	27 form	mark
25	sugar	sugar	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 crystals	compound
26	crystals	crystal	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 form	nsubj
27	form	form	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 boiled	advcl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 grow	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 Brazil	cc
30	Brazil	Brazil	PROPN	Number=Sing	33 grow	nsubj
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 India	cc
32	India	India	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 Brazil	conj
33	grow	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 crushed	conj
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 most	det
35	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	33 grow	advmod
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 grass	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	is a	present	Sugar cane	a giant grass			tree rules
2	store	present	a giant grass	sugar	cane's stems		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent sugar=Theme in stem=Location
3	crush	present · passive		the stems		for juice	vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
4	boil	present · passive		juice			vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient
5	form	present	sugar crystals				vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	grow	present	Brazil and India				vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	stem		cane				nom stem «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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:10.

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): R6-punct-agree ×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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