Bets, dares and silly reasons, sentence 18

In science a fruit is the part of a plant that holds the seeds, so tomatoes are fruits; cooks call them vegetables because they are not sweet.

Who acts: fruit, plant, tomatoes, cooks · What happens: be, hold, call, not be · To what, where: part, science, seeds, fruits, tomatoes · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Bets, dares and silly reasons» of the world 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 (fruit, plant, tomatoes, cooks), 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	In	in	ADP	_	2 science	case
2	science	science	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 part	obl
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 fruit	det
4	fruit	fruit	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 part	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 part	cop
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 part	det
7	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 plant	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 plant	det
10	plant	plant	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 part	nmod
11	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 holds	nsubj
12	holds	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 plant	acl:relcl
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 seeds	det
14	seeds	seed	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 holds	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 fruits	punct
16	so	so	ADV	_	19 fruits	advmod
17	tomatoes	tomato	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 fruits	nsubj
18	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 fruits	cop
19	fruits	fruit	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 part	parataxis
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 call	punct
21	cooks	cook	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 call	nsubj
22	call	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 part	parataxis
23	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 call	obj
24	vegetables	vegetable	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 call	xcomp
25	because	because	SCONJ	_	29 sweet	mark
26	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 sweet	nsubj
27	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 sweet	cop
28	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	29 sweet	advmod
29	sweet	sweet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 call	advcl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 part	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	present	a fruit	the part	science	of a plant	tree rules
2	hold	present	a plant	the seeds			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent seed=Theme
3	is a	present	tomatoes	fruits			tree rules
4	call	present	cooks	tomatoes = tomato			vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient
5	not is	present	cooks = cook			sweet property	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:world:169-bets-dares-and-silly-reasons.lesson:18.

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): R7-rel-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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