Sugar, chocolate, tea and coffee: the plants behind treats, sentence 13

Cocoa pods grow on the trunk and big branches, hold about 20 to 50 beans in sweet pulp, and their tiny flowers are pollinated by small flies called midges.

Who acts: Cocoa pods, small flies · What happens: grow, hold, pollinate, call · To what, where: trunk, 20 beans, sweet pulp, tiny flowers, midges · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Cocoa pods, small flies), 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	Cocoa	cocoa	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 pods	compound
2	pods	pod	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 grow	nsubj
3	grow	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	on	on	ADP	_	6 trunk	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 trunk	det
6	trunk	trunk	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 grow	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 branches	cc
8	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 branches	amod
9	branches	branch	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 trunk	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 hold	punct
11	hold	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 grow	conj
12	about	about	ADV	_	13 20	advmod
13	20	20	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	16 beans	nummod
14	to	to	ADP	_	15 50	case
15	50	50	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	13 20	nmod
16	beans	bean	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 hold	obj
17	in	in	ADP	_	19 pulp	case
18	sweet	sweet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 pulp	amod
19	pulp	pulp	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 beans	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 pollinated	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 pollinated	cc
22	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 flowers	nmod:poss
23	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 flowers	amod
24	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 pollinated	nsubj:pass
25	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 pollinated	aux:pass
26	pollinated	pollinate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 grow	conj
27	by	by	ADP	_	29 flies	case
28	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 flies	amod
29	flies	fly	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 pollinated	obl:agent
30	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	29 flies	acl
31	midges	midge	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 called	xcomp
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 grow	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	grow	present	Cocoa pods		the trunk and big branches	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on trunk=Location
2	hold	present	Cocoa pods not said here	20 beans	sweet pulp	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent bean=Theme in pulp=Location
3	pollinate	present · passive	small flies	pods's tiny flowers		tree rules
4	call	participle	small flies not said here	midges		vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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:13.

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): R7-rel-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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