Nuts, beans, seeds and spices, sentence 19
Cinnamon is the inner bark of a tree, peeled and dried so it curls; Sri Lanka is famous for true cinnamon, and cheaper cassia comes from a related tree.
Who acts: Cinnamon, Sri, cheaper cassia · What happens: be, peel, dry, curl, come · To what, where: inner bark, related tree
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 (Cinnamon, Sri, cheaper cassia), 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 | Cinnamon | cinnamon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 bark | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 bark | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 bark | det |
| 4 | inner | inner | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 bark | amod |
| 5 | bark | bark | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 tree | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 tree | det |
| 8 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 bark | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 peeled | punct |
| 10 | peeled | peel | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 bark | parataxis |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 dried | cc |
| 12 | dried | dry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 peeled | conj |
| 13 | so | so | ADV | _ | 15 curls | advmod |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 curls | nsubj |
| 15 | curls | curl | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 bark | parataxis |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 famous | punct |
| 17 | Sri | Sri | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 famous | nsubj |
| 18 | Lanka | Lanka | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Sri | flat |
| 19 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 famous | cop |
| 20 | famous | famous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 bark | parataxis |
| 21 | for | for | ADP | _ | 23 cinnamon | case |
| 22 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 cinnamon | amod |
| 23 | cinnamon | cinnamon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 famous | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 comes | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 comes | cc |
| 26 | cheaper | cheap | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 27 cassia | amod |
| 27 | cassia | cassia | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 comes | nsubj |
| 28 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 famous | conj |
| 29 | from | from | ADP | _ | 32 tree | case |
| 30 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 32 tree | det |
| 31 | related | related | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 tree | amod |
| 32 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 comes | obl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 bark | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Cinnamon | the inner bark | of a tree | tree rules | |||
| 2 | peel | participle | vn pit-10.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | dry | participle | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 4 | curl | present | cinnamon | vn coil-9.6-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | is | present | Sri | for true cinnamon; famous property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | come | present | cheaper cassia | a related tree | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from tree=Initial_Location |
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:19.
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): no change. 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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