--- title: A banana plant is a giant herb, not a tree; shop bananas have no pro… — Plants we eat: roots, stems, leaves, flowers, fr… · tree and pragmatics description: A banana plant is a giant herb, not a tree; shop bananas have no proper seeds, so new plants grow from shoots, and almost all of them are one kind, the Cavendish, which makes them easy prey for one disease. Who acts: banana plant, shop bananas, new plants, all. 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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 (banana plant, shop bananas, new plants, all), 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:11 # text = A banana plant is a giant herb, not a tree; shop bananas have no proper seeds, so new plants grow from shoots, and almost all of them are one kind, the Cavendish, which makes them easy prey for one disease. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 banana banana NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 plant plant NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 4 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 giant giant ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 herb herb NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 9 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 11 advmod _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 tree tree NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:appos 12 ; ; PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 13 shop shop NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 compound _ _ 14 bananas banana NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 nsubj _ _ 15 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 parataxis _ _ 16 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 18 det _ _ 17 proper proper ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 seeds seed NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 obj _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 20 so so ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 21 new new ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 plants plant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 nsubj _ _ 23 grow grow VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 conj _ _ 24 from from ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 shoots shoot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 obl _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 28 almost almost ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ _ 29 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 34 nsubj _ _ 30 of of ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 31 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 nmod _ _ 32 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 34 cop _ _ 33 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 34 nummod _ _ 34 kind kind NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 conj _ _ 35 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 36 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 37 Cavendish cavendish PROPN NNP Number=Sing 34 appos _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=34:appos|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 38 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 39 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 40 nsubj _ _ 40 makes make VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 37 acl:relcl _ _ 41 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 40 obj _ _ 42 easy easy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 43 amod _ _ 43 prey prey NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=40:obj 44 for for ADP IN _ 46 case _ _ 45 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 46 nummod _ _ 46 disease disease NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 nmod _ _ 47 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | a banana plant | a giant herb and a tree and one kind | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **have** | present | shop bananas | no proper seeds | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent seed=Patient | | 3 | **grow** | present | new plants | | | | | from shoots | vn grow-26.2.1 «NP.product V PP.patient»: agent=Product from shoot=Patient | | 4 | **is a** | present | all | one kind | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **make** | present | the Cavendish | seeds *= seed* | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset they=Product | 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:288-plants-we-eat-roots-stems-leaves-flowers-fruits-and-seeds.lesson:11`. **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 ×2, 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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