Nuts, beans, seeds and spices, sentence 5
Raw kidney beans hold a substance that makes people sick until they are boiled hard, and the shell of a cashew holds an oil that burns skin, which is why you never see cashews in their shells in a shop.
Who acts: Raw kidney beans, substance, shell, oil, you · What happens: hold, make, boil, burn, be, not see · To what, where: substance, people, beans, oil, 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 (Raw kidney beans, substance, shell, oil), 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 | Raw | raw | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 beans | amod |
| 2 | kidney | kidney | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 beans | compound |
| 3 | beans | bean | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 hold | nsubj |
| 4 | hold | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 substance | det |
| 6 | substance | substance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 hold | obj |
| 7 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 makes | nsubj |
| 8 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 substance | acl:relcl |
| 9 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 makes | obj |
| 10 | sick | sick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 makes | xcomp |
| 11 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 14 boiled | mark |
| 12 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 boiled | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 boiled | aux:pass |
| 14 | boiled | boil | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 makes | advcl |
| 15 | hard | hard | ADV | Degree=Pos | 14 boiled | advmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 holds | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 holds | cc |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 shell | det |
| 19 | shell | shell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 holds | nsubj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 cashew | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 cashew | det |
| 22 | cashew | cashew | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 shell | nmod |
| 23 | holds | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 hold | conj |
| 24 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 oil | det |
| 25 | oil | oil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 holds | obj |
| 26 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 27 burns | nsubj |
| 27 | burns | burn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 oil | acl:relcl |
| 28 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 burns | obj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 why | punct |
| 30 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 32 why | nsubj |
| 31 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 32 why | cop |
| 32 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 hold | parataxis |
| 33 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 35 see | nsubj |
| 34 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 35 see | advmod |
| 35 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 32 why | ccomp |
| 36 | cashews | cashew | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 see | obj |
| 37 | in | in | ADP | _ | 39 shells | case |
| 38 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 39 shells | nmod:poss |
| 39 | shells | shell | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 cashews | nmod |
| 40 | in | in | ADP | _ | 42 shop | case |
| 41 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 42 shop | det |
| 42 | shop | shop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 see | obl |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 hold | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hold | present | Raw kidney beans | a substance | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent substance=Theme | ||||
| 2 | make | present | a substance | people | sick property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset people=Product | |||
| 3 | boil | present · passive | beans = bean | hard property | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 4 | hold | present | the shell of a cashew | a oil | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent oil=Theme | ||||
| 5 | burn | present | a oil | skin | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent skin=Theme | ||||
| 6 | is | present | why property | tree rules | |||||
| 7 | not see | present | you | cashews | beans's shells | in a shop | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer cashew=Stimulus |
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.
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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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