--- title: Honey can last thousands of years because it has very little water a… — Food from around the world: how crops travelled… · tree and pragmatics description: Honey can last thousands of years because it has very little water and is a bit acidic, so germs cannot grow; it should not be given to babies under one year. Who acts: Honey, germs. 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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 (Honey, germs), 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:15 # text = Honey can last thousands of years because it has very little water and is a bit acidic, so germs cannot grow; it should not be given to babies under one year. # 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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Honey honey NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 2 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 3 aux _ _ 3 last last VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 29 parataxis _ _ 4 thousands thousand NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ 5 of of ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nmod _ _ 7 because because SCONJ IN _ 9 mark _ _ 8 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 9 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 advcl _ _ 10 very very ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 11 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 14 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 cop _ _ 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 bit bit NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl:unmarked _ _ 17 acidic acidic ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 conj _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 19 so so ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=23:mark|HaikuPos=SCONJ:IN:_ 20 germs germ NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 nsubj _ _ 21 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 23 aux _ _ 22 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 23 advmod _ _ 23 grow grow VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 17 parataxis _ _ 24 ; ; PUNCT : _ 9 punct _ _ 25 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj:pass _ _ 26 should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 29 aux _ _ 27 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 29 advmod _ _ 28 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 29 aux:pass _ _ 29 given give VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 30 to to ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 31 babies baby NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 obl _ _ 32 under under ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 33 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 34 nummod _ _ 34 year year NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nmod _ _ 35 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=29:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **last** | can | Honey | thousands of years | | | | | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme thousand=Value | | 2 | **have** | present | honey | little water | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Patient | | 3 | **is** | present | honey *not said here* | | | | | a bit *obl:unmarked*; acidic *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **not** **grow** | can | germs | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **not** **give** | should · passive | | honey | babies under one year | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Theme to baby=Recipient | 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:15`. **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 ×1, 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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