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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 (Chillies, capsaicin, heat, birds), 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:17 # text = Chillies contain capsaicin, which makes the mouth feel heat; birds do not feel it and spread chilli seeds, and milk calms the burn better than water. # 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): R5-strong ×2 1 Chillies chilli NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 contain contain VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 capsaicin capsaicin NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 4 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 5 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 6 nsubj _ _ 6 makes make VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 acl:relcl _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:det 8 mouth mouth NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 compound _ _ 9 feel feel VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 xcomp _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 10 heat heat NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ _ 11 ; ; PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 12 birds bird NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 nsubj _ _ 13 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 aux _ _ 14 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 15 advmod _ _ 15 feel feel VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 conj _ _ 16 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 obj _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 18 spread spread VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 15 conj _ _ 19 chilli chilli NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 compound _ _ 20 seeds seed NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obj _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 23 milk milk NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nsubj _ _ 24 calms calm VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 burn burn NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obj _ _ 27 better good ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 24 advmod _ _ 28 than than ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 29 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obl _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **contain** | present | Chillies | capsaicin | | | | | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot capsaicin=Theme | | 2 | **make** | present | capsaicin | heat | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **feel** | infinitive | heat *not said here* | | | | | | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 4 | **not** **feel** | present · do-support | birds | heat | | | | | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | | 5 | **spread** | infinitive | birds *not said here* | chilli seeds | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location seed=Theme | | 6 | **calm** | present | milk | the burn | | | | good *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus burn=Experiencer | 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:17`. **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): R5-strong ×2. **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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