Nuts, beans, seeds and spices, sentence 6

Spices come from every part of a plant: pepper is a berry, saffron is the red threads in a crocus flower, and cinnamon is curled-up tree bark.

Who acts: Spices, pepper, saffron · What happens: come, be, curl · To what, where: part, berry, red threads, crocus flower, curled tree bark

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 (Spices, pepper, saffron), 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	Spices	spice	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 come	nsubj
2	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	from	from	ADP	_	5 part	case
4	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	5 part	det
5	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 come	obl
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 plant	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 plant	det
8	plant	plant	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 part	nmod
9	:	:	PUNCT	_	10 pepper	punct
10	pepper	pepper	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 berry	nsubj
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 berry	cop
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 berry	det
13	berry	berry	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 come	parataxis
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 threads	punct
15	saffron	saffron	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 threads	nsubj
16	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 threads	cop
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 threads	det
18	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 threads	amod
19	threads	thread	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 berry	conj
20	in	in	ADP	_	23 flower	case
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 flower	det
22	crocus	crocus	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 flower	compound
23	flower	flower	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 threads	nmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 bark	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 bark	cc
26	cinnamon	cinnamon	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 bark	nsubj:pass
27	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 bark	cop
28	curled	curl	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	32 bark	amod
29	-	-	PUNCT	_	28 curled	punct
30	up	up	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 curled	compound
31	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 bark	compound
32	bark	bark	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 berry	conj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 come	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	come	present	Spices		every part of a plant	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from part=Initial_Location
2	is a	present	pepper	a berry and the red threads and curled tree bark		tree rules
3	is a	present	saffron	the red threads	a crocus flower	tree rules
4	curl	participle				vn coil-9.6-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Theme
5	is a	present · passive		curled tree bark		tree rules

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:6.

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, R6-punct-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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