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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 (Plants, onion, you, chilli), 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:5 # text = Plants even fight back: an onion makes a stinging gas when you cut it, and a chilli makes a chemical that tricks your mouth into feeling fire. # 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 Plants plant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 2 even even ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 3 fight fight VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 back back ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 5 : : PUNCT : _ 8 punct _ _ 6 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 onion onion NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 8 makes make VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 10 stinging sting VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 11 amod _ _ 11 gas gas NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ _ 12 when when SCONJ WRB _ 14 mark _ _ 13 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 14 cut cut VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 advcl _ _ 15 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 obj _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 18 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 chilli chilli NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nsubj _ _ 20 makes make VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 21 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 chemical chemical NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obj _ _ 23 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 24 nsubj _ _ 24 tricks trick VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 acl:relcl _ _ 25 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 26 nmod:poss _ _ 26 mouth mouth NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obj _ _ 27 into into ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 feeling feeling NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 compound _ _ 29 fire fire NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=assert | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **fight back** | present | Plants | | | | | | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **make** | present | a onion | a stinging gas | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset gas=Product | | 3 | **sting** | gerund | | | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | | 4 | **cut** | present | you | gas | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Product | | 5 | **make** | present | a chilli | a chemical | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset chemical=Product | | 6 | **trick** | present | a chemical | your mouth | | | | into feeling fire *result* | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent mouth=Patient into fire=Result | 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:5`. **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. 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