--- title: Olives are bitter on the tree and must be soaked or cured before eat… — Food from around the world: how crops travelled… · tree and pragmatics description: Olives are bitter on the tree and must be soaked or cured before eating, and some olive trees are over a thousand years old. Who acts: Olives, olive trees. A sentence of the lesson «Food from around the world: how crops travelled the globe» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its dep --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/289-food-from-around-the-world-how-crops-travelled-the-globe/12/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/) / [Food from around the world: how crops…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/289-food-from-around-the-world-how-crops-travelled-the-globe/) / 12 # Food from around the world: how crops travelled the globe, sentence 12 Olives are bitter on the tree and must be soaked or cured before eating, and some olive trees are over a thousand years old. **Who acts:** Olives, olive trees · **What happens:** be, soak, cure, eat · **To what, where:** tree This is a sentence of the lesson «Food from around the world: how crops travelled the globe» 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 (Olives, olive trees), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:289-food-from-around-the-world-how-crops-travelled-the-globe.lesson:12 # text = Olives are bitter on the tree and must be soaked or cured before eating, and some olive trees are over a thousand years old. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 289-food-from-around-the-world-how-crops-travelled-the-globe.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 Olives olive NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 2 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 cop _ _ 3 bitter bitter ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 4 on on ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 tree tree NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 8 must must AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 10 aux _ _ 9 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 10 aux:pass _ _ 10 soaked soak VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 conj _ _ 11 or or CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 cured cure VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 10 conj _ _ 13 before before SCONJ IN _ 14 mark _ _ 14 eating eat VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 12 advcl _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 17 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 19 det _ _ 18 olive olive NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 compound _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=19:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 19 trees tree NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 nsubj _ _ 20 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 cop _ _ 21 over over ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 22 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 thousand thousand NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 24 nummod _ _ 24 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 obl:unmarked _ _ 25 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 conj _ _ 26 . . PUNCT . _ 3 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 | **is** | present | Olives | | | the tree | | bitter *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **soak** | must · passive | Olives *not said here* | | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V» | | 3 | **cure** | participle | Olives *not said here* | | | | | | vn free-10.6.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer | | 4 | **eat** | gerund | Olives *not said here* | | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **is** | present | some olive trees | | | | year | old *property* | tree rules | 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:289-food-from-around-the-world-how-crops-travelled-the-globe.lesson:12`. **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. 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