Seeds and fruit and how they travel, sentence 13

Unripe fruits are often green, hard and sour so animals do not eat them before the seeds are ready; ripe ones turn soft, sweet and bright.

Who acts: Unripe fruits, animals, seeds, ripe ones · What happens: be, not eat, turn · To what, where: pods

This is a sentence of the lesson «Seeds and fruit and how they travel» 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 (Unripe fruits, animals, seeds, ripe ones), 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	Unripe	unripe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 fruits	amod
2	fruits	fruit	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 green	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 green	cop
4	often	often	ADV	_	5 green	advmod
5	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 hard	punct
7	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 green	conj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 sour	cc
9	sour	sour	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 green	conj
10	so	so	ADV	_	14 eat	advmod
11	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 eat	nsubj
12	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 eat	aux
13	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 eat	advmod
14	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 green	parataxis
15	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 eat	obj
16	before	before	SCONJ	_	20 ready	mark
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 seeds	det
18	seeds	seed	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 ready	nsubj
19	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 ready	cop
20	ready	ready	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 eat	advcl
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 turn	punct
22	ripe	ripe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 ones	amod
23	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 turn	nsubj
24	turn	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 green	parataxis
25	soft	soft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 turn	xcomp
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 sweet	punct
27	sweet	sweet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 soft	conj
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 bright	cc
29	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 soft	conj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 green	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	Unripe fruits		green, often property	tree rules
2	be		Unripe fruits not said here			tree rules
3	be		Unripe fruits not said here			tree rules
4	not eat	present · do-support	animals	pods = pod		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient
5	is	present	the seeds		ready property	tree rules
6	turn	present	ripe ones		soft property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=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:059-seeds-and-fruit-and-how-they-travel.lesson:13.

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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