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title: The carrot is a root, the celery is a stem, the lettuce is a leaf, t… — Plants we eat: roots, stems, leaves, flowers, fr… · tree and pragmatics
description: The carrot is a root, the celery is a stem, the lettuce is a leaf, the broccoli is a bunch of flower buds, and the peas are seeds. Who acts: carrot, lettuce, broccoli, peas. A sentence of the lesson «Plants we eat: roots, stems, leaves, flowers, fruits and seeds» of the biology course of Mova's prim
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# Plants we eat: roots, stems, leaves, flowers, fruits and seeds, sentence 1

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The carrot is a root, the celery is a stem, the lettuce is a leaf, the broccoli is a bunch of flower buds, and the peas are seeds.

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**Who acts:** carrot, lettuce, broccoli, peas · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** root, stem, leaf, bunch, seeds

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Plants we eat: roots, stems, leaves, flowers, fruits and seeds» 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 (carrot, lettuce, broccoli, peas), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:288-plants-we-eat-roots-stems-leaves-flowers-fruits-and-seeds.lesson:1
# text = The carrot is a root, the celery is a stem, the lettuce is a leaf, the broccoli is a bunch of flower buds, and the peas are seeds.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 288-plants-we-eat-roots-stems-leaves-flowers-fruits-and-seeds.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): R3-conj-first ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	carrot	carrot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	root	root	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	celery	celery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=5:conj
9	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	stem	stem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	lettuce	lettuce	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
15	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	leaf	leaf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	broccoli	broccoli	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
21	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	bunch	bunch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	flower	flower	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	buds	bud	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nmod	_	_
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	peas	pea	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	nsubj	_	_
31	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	32	cop	_	_
32	seeds	seed	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	conj	_	_
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=11:punct
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | the carrot | a root |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | present |  | a stem and a root and the celery and a leaf and a bunch and seeds |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is a** | present | the lettuce | a leaf |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **is a** | present | the broccoli | a bunch |  |  |  | of flower buds | tree rules |
| 5 | **is a** | present | the peas | seeds |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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.

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**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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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