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title: Some surprises hide in the kitchen: a potato is a swollen stem, not… — Plants we eat: roots, stems, leaves, flowers, fr… · tree and pragmatics
description: Some surprises hide in the kitchen: a potato is a swollen stem, not a root; a banana is a berry but a strawberry is not; a peanut is not a nut; and chocolate starts as the seeds of a tree. Who acts: surprises, potato, banana, peanut. A sentence of the lesson «Plants we eat: roots, stems, leaves, flo
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# Plants we eat: roots, stems, leaves, flowers, fruits and seeds, sentence 4

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Some surprises hide in the kitchen: a potato is a swollen stem, not a root; a banana is a berry but a strawberry is not; a peanut is not a nut; and chocolate starts as the seeds of a tree.

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**Who acts:** surprises, potato, banana, peanut, chocolate · **What happens:** hide, be, not be, start · **To what, where:** kitchen, swollen stem, berry, strawberry, nut

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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 (surprises, potato, banana, peanut), 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:4
# text = Some surprises hide in the kitchen: a potato is a swollen stem, not a root; a banana is a berry but a strawberry is not; a peanut is not a nut; and chocolate starts as the seeds of a tree.
# 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 ×1
1	Some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	2	det	_	_
2	surprises	surprise	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	hide	hide	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	potato	potato	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
10	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	swollen	swell	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	stem	stem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	parataxis	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	17	advmod	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	root	root	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=13:parataxis
18	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	23	punct	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	banana	banana	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	berry	berry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
24	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	strawberry	strawberry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
27	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
28	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	26	advmod	_	_
29	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	35	punct	_	_
30	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	peanut	peanut	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nsubj	_	_
32	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	35	cop	_	_
33	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	35	advmod	_	_
34	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	nut	nut	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
36	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	39	punct	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
38	chocolate	chocolate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	nsubj	_	_
39	starts	start	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
40	as	as	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
42	seeds	seed	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	39	obl	_	_
43	of	of	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
44	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
45	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	nmod	_	_
46	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **hide** | present | some surprises |  |  | the kitchen |  |  | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in kitchen=Location |
| 2 | **is a** | present | a potato | a swollen stem and a root but a berry and a strawberry and a nut |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is a** | present | a banana | a berry |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **not** **is a** | present | a potato *not said here* | a strawberry |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **not** **is a** | present | a peanut | a nut |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **start** | present | chocolate |  |  |  |  | as the seeds of a tree | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |

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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): R7-rel-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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