Friends who cling to a legend, sentence 10

Botanists (plant scientists) call tomatoes fruits because they hold seeds, but cooks treat them as vegetables, and in 1893 a US court case called them vegetables for tax.

Who acts: Botanists, cooks, US court case · What happens: call, hold, treat · To what, where: tomatoes, seeds, 1893 · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Friends who cling to a legend» of the myths 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 (Botanists, cooks, US court case), 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	Botanists	botanist	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 call	nsubj
2	(	(	PUNCT	_	4 scientists	punct
3	plant	plant	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 scientists	compound
4	scientists	scientist	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Botanists	appos
5	)	)	PUNCT	_	4 scientists	punct
6	call	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	tomatoes	tomato	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 call	obj
8	fruits	fruit	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 call	xcomp
9	because	because	SCONJ	_	11 hold	mark
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 hold	nsubj
11	hold	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 call	advcl
12	seeds	seed	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 hold	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 treat	punct
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 treat	cc
15	cooks	cook	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 treat	nsubj
16	treat	treat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 call	conj
17	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 treat	obj
18	as	as	ADP	_	19 vegetables	case
19	vegetables	vegetable	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 treat	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 called	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 called	cc
22	in	in	ADP	_	23 1893	case
23	1893	1893	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	28 called	obl
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 case	det
25	US	US	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 case	compound
26	court	court	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 case	compound
27	case	case	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 called	nsubj
28	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 call	conj
29	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 called	obj
30	vegetables	vegetable	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 called	xcomp
31	for	for	ADP	_	32 tax	case
32	tax	tax	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 vegetables	nmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 call	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	call	present	Botanists	tomatoes			vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent tomato=Recipient
2	hold	present	Botanists = botanist	seeds			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent seed=Theme
3	treat	present	cooks	seeds = seed		as vegetables	vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent they=Theme as vegetable=Attribute
4	call	past	a US court case	seeds = seed	1893		vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient

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:myths:031-friends-who-cling-to-a-legend.lesson:10.

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): R3-conj-first ×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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