--- title: A tomato grows from a flower and holds seeds, so botanists call it a… — The big biology quiz, part 3: dinosaurs, evoluti… · tree and pragmatics description: A tomato grows from a flower and holds seeds, so botanists call it a fruit, while cooks call it a vegetable; a potato is a swollen stem, a carrot is a root and broccoli is a bunch of flower buds. Who acts: tomato, botanists, cooks, potato. 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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 (tomato, botanists, cooks, potato), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:300-the-big-biology-quiz-part-3-dinosaurs-evolution-conservation-and-food.lesson:18 # text = A tomato grows from a flower and holds seeds, so botanists call it a fruit, while cooks call it a vegetable; a potato is a swollen stem, a carrot is a root and broccoli is a bunch of flower buds. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 300-the-big-biology-quiz-part-3-dinosaurs-evolution-conservation-and-food.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): R2-punct-next ×1, R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 tomato tomato NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 grows grow VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 from from ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 flower flower NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 8 holds hold VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 9 seeds seed NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obj _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 11 so so ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 12 botanists botanist NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 nsubj _ _ 13 call call VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=8:conj 14 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 obj _ _ 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 fruit fruit NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=13:obj 17 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 18 while while SCONJ IN _ 20 mark _ _ 19 cooks cook NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 nsubj _ _ 20 call call VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:conj 21 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 obj _ _ 22 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 vegetable vegetable NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=20:obj 24 ; ; PUNCT : _ 30 punct _ _ 25 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 potato potato NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nsubj _ _ 27 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 30 cop _ _ 28 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 29 swollen swell ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 30 stem stem NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 parataxis _ _ 31 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=30:punct 32 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 carrot carrot NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 nsubj _ _ 34 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 36 cop _ _ 35 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 root root NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=30:conj 37 and and CCONJ CC _ 41 cc _ _ 38 broccoli broccoli NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 nsubj _ _ 39 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 41 cop _ _ 40 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 41 bunch bunch NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 conj _ _ 42 of of ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 43 flower flower NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 compound _ _ 44 buds bud NOUN NNS Number=Plur 41 nmod _ _ 45 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **grow** | present | a tomato | | | | | from a flower | vn grow-26.2.1 «NP.product V PP.patient»: agent=Product from flower=Patient | | 2 | **hold** | present | a tomato *not said here* | seeds | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent seed=Theme | | 3 | **call** | present | botanists | tomato | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Recipient | | 4 | **call** | present | cooks | tomato | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Recipient | | 5 | **is a** | present | a potato | a swollen stem | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **is a** | present | a carrot | a root and a bunch | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **is a** | present | broccoli | a bunch | | | | of flower buds | 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:300-the-big-biology-quiz-part-3-dinosaurs-evolution-conservation-and-food.lesson:18`. **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): R2-punct-next ×1, R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-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. 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