Nuts, beans, seeds and spices, sentence 15

The cashew nut grows under a fleshy cashew apple, and its shell holds an oily liquid that burns skin, so cashews are sold shelled and cooked.

Who acts: cashew nut, shell, oily liquid · What happens: grow, hold, burn, sell, shell, cook · To what, where: fleshy cashew apple, oily liquid, skin, cashews

This is a sentence of the lesson «Nuts, beans, seeds and spices» 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 (cashew nut, shell, oily liquid), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 nut	det
2	cashew	cashew	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 nut	compound
3	nut	nut	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 grows	nsubj
4	grows	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	under	under	ADP	_	9 apple	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 apple	det
7	fleshy	fleshy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 apple	amod
8	cashew	cashew	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 apple	compound
9	apple	apple	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 grows	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 holds	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 holds	cc
12	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 shell	nmod:poss
13	shell	shell	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 holds	nsubj
14	holds	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 grows	conj
15	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 liquid	det
16	oily	oily	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 liquid	amod
17	liquid	liquid	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 holds	obj
18	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 burns	nsubj
19	burns	burn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 liquid	acl:relcl
20	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 burns	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 sold	punct
22	so	so	ADV	_	25 sold	advmod
23	cashews	cashew	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 sold	nsubj:pass
24	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 sold	aux:pass
25	sold	sell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 burns	conj
26	shelled	shell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	25 sold	xcomp
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 cooked	cc
28	cooked	cook	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	26 shelled	conj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 grows	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	grow	present	the cashew nut		a fleshy cashew apple	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme under apple=Location
2	hold	present	apple's shell	a oily liquid		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent liquid=Theme
3	burn	present	a oily liquid	skin		vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent skin=Theme
4	sell	present · passive		cashews		tree rules
5	shell	participle				vn pelt-17.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
6	cook	participle				vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=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:348-nuts-beans-seeds-and-spices.lesson:15.

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): R5-strong ×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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