--- title: The famous stripes on «broken» tulips in old Dutch paintings were ca… — The microscopic world: viruses and vaccines · tree and pragmatics description: The famous stripes on «broken» tulips in old Dutch paintings were caused by a virus, and in the 1630s a single striped bulb could cost as much as a house. Who acts: virus, single striped bulb. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (virus, single striped bulb), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:258-the-microscopic-world-viruses-and-vaccines.lesson:15 # text = The famous stripes on «broken» tulips in old Dutch paintings were caused by a virus, and in the 1630s a single striped bulb could cost as much as a house. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 258-the-microscopic-world-viruses-and-vaccines.lesson # annotation = 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, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 famous famous ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 stripes stripe NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 nsubj _ _ 4 on on ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 5 « « PUNCT `` _ 8 punct _ _ 6 broken break VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 8 amod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=8:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 7 » » PUNCT '' _ 8 punct _ _ 8 tulips tulip NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nmod _ _ 9 in in ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 10 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 11 Dutch dutch ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 paintings painting NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 nmod _ _ 13 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 aux:pass _ _ 14 caused cause VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 15 by by ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 virus virus NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 20 in in ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 1630s 1630 NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 obl _ _ 23 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 24 single single ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 25 striped stripe ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 26 bulb bulb NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nsubj _ _ 27 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 28 aux _ _ 28 cost cost VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 conj _ _ 29 as as ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ _ 30 much much ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 obj _ _ 31 as as ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 32 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=30:nmod 34 . . PUNCT . _ 14 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **break** *in a quote* | participle | | | | | | | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | | 2 | **cause** | past · passive | a virus | the famous stripes on broken tulips in old Dutch paintings | | | | | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition subject=Patient | | 3 | **cost** | could | a single striped bulb | much | | the 1630s | | | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme much=Value | 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](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:258-the-microscopic-world-viruses-and-vaccines.lesson:15`. **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, R8-pos-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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