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title: Botanically, bananas, grapes and tomatoes are berries, while a straw… — Plants we eat: roots, stems, leaves, flowers, fr… · tree and pragmatics
description: Botanically, bananas, grapes and tomatoes are berries, while a strawberry, with its seeds on the outside, is not a true berry, and neither are raspberries and blackberries. Who acts: bananas, strawberry. A sentence of the lesson «Plants we eat: roots, stems, leaves, flowers, fruits and seeds» of the
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# Plants we eat: roots, stems, leaves, flowers, fruits and seeds, sentence 10

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Botanically, bananas, grapes and tomatoes are berries, while a strawberry, with its seeds on the outside, is not a true berry, and neither are raspberries and blackberries.

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**Who acts:** bananas, strawberry · **What happens:** be, not be · **To what, where:** berries, true berry, raspberries

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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 (bananas, strawberry), 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:10
# text = Botanically, bananas, grapes and tomatoes are berries, while a strawberry, with its seeds on the outside, is not a true berry, and neither are raspberries and blackberries.
# 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): no change
1	Botanically	botanically	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	bananas	banana	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	grapes	grape	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	tomatoes	tomato	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	_
8	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
9	berries	berry	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
11	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	strawberry	strawberry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
15	with	with	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	seeds	seed	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nmod	_	_
18	on	on	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	outside	outside	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
22	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
23	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	26	advmod	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	true	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	berry	berry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	advcl	_	_
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
29	neither	neither	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	31	det	_	_
30	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	31	cop	_	_
31	raspberries	raspberry	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	conj	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
33	blackberries	blackberry	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	conj	_	_
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	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 | bananas and grapes and tomatoes | berries |  |  |  | botanically *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **is a** | present | a strawberry with strawberry's seeds on the outside | a true berry and neither raspberries and blackberries |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is a** | present | a strawberry with strawberry's seeds on the outside *not said here* | neither raspberries and blackberries |  |  |  |  | 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): 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.

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

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