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title: Carrots and beetroot are roots, celery and asparagus are stems, lett… — Plants we eat: roots, stems, leaves, flowers, fr… · tree and pragmatics
description: Carrots and beetroot are roots, celery and asparagus are stems, lettuce and spinach are leaves, broccoli and cauliflower are flowers, and peas and beans are seeds. Who acts: Carrots, celery, lettuce, broccoli. A sentence of the lesson «Plants we eat: roots, stems, leaves, flowers, fruits and seeds» 
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# Plants we eat: roots, stems, leaves, flowers, fruits and seeds, sentence 6

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Carrots and beetroot are roots, celery and asparagus are stems, lettuce and spinach are leaves, broccoli and cauliflower are flowers, and peas and beans are seeds.

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**Who acts:** Carrots, celery, lettuce, broccoli, peas · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** roots, stems, leaves, flowers, seeds

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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 (Carrots, celery, lettuce, broccoli), 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:6
# text = Carrots and beetroot are roots, celery and asparagus are stems, lettuce and spinach are leaves, broccoli and cauliflower are flowers, and peas and beans are seeds.
# 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): R6-punct-agree ×3
1	Carrots	carrot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	beetroot	beetroot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
4	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	roots	root	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=7:punct
7	celery	celery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	asparagus	asparagus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
10	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
11	stems	stem	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
13	lettuce	lettuce	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	spinach	spinach	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
16	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
17	leaves	leaf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=19:punct
19	broccoli	broccoli	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	cauliflower	cauliflower	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	_
22	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
23	flowers	flower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
26	peas	pea	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	nsubj	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	beans	bean	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	conj	_	_
29	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	30	cop	_	_
30	seeds	seed	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	_
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=23:punct
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Carrots and beetroot | roots and stems and leaves and flowers and seeds |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | present | celery and asparagus | stems |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is a** | present | lettuce and spinach | leaves |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **is a** | present | broccoli and cauliflower | flowers |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **is a** | present | peas and beans | seeds |  |  |  |  | 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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**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:6`.

**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): R6-punct-agree ×3. **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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