Sugar, chocolate, tea and coffee: the plants behind treats, sentence 21

Coffee plants first grew wild in Ethiopia; the story of a goatherd named Kaldi whose goats danced after eating the berries is a legend nobody can prove.

Who acts: Coffee plants, goats, story, nobody · What happens: grow, name, dance, eat, be, prove · To what, where: Ethiopia, goatherd, berries, legend

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 (Coffee plants, goats, story, nobody), 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	Coffee	coffee	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 plants	compound
2	plants	plant	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 grew	nsubj
3	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	4 grew	advmod
4	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 grew	xcomp
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 Ethiopia	case
7	Ethiopia	Ethiopia	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 grew	obl
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 legend	punct
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 story	det
10	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 legend	nsubj
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 goatherd	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 goatherd	det
13	goatherd	goatherd	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 story	nmod
14	named	name	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 goatherd	acl
15	Kaldi	Kaldi	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 named	xcomp
16	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	17 goats	nmod:poss
17	goats	goat	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 danced	nsubj
18	danced	dance	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 goatherd	acl:relcl
19	after	after	SCONJ	_	20 eating	mark
20	eating	eat	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 danced	advcl
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 berries	det
22	berries	berry	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 eating	obj
23	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 legend	cop
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 legend	det
25	legend	legend	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 grew	conj
26	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	28 prove	nsubj
27	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 prove	aux
28	prove	prove	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 legend	acl:relcl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 grew	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	grow	past	Coffee plants		Ethiopia	first, wild property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in ethiopia=Location
2	name	participle		a goatherd not said here			vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	dance	past	goats				vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	eat	gerund	goats not said here	the berries			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent berry=Patient
5	is a	present	the story of a goatherd	a legend			tree rules
6	prove	can	nobody	a legend not said here			vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent legend=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:347-sugar-chocolate-tea-and-coffee-the-plants-behind-treats.lesson:21.

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): R2-punct-next ×1, 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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