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title: A vegetable patch is a place where you eat different parts of plants… — The vegetable patch: peas, potatoes, tomatoes an… · tree and pragmatics
description: A vegetable patch is a place where you eat different parts of plants: the seeds of a pea, the swollen underground stem of a potato, the fruit of a tomato and the root of a radish. Who acts: vegetable patch, you. A sentence of the lesson «The vegetable patch: peas, potatoes, tomatoes and slugs» of th
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# The vegetable patch: peas, potatoes, tomatoes and slugs, sentence 0

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A vegetable patch is a place where you eat different parts of plants: the seeds of a pea, the swollen underground stem of a potato, the fruit of a tomato and the root of a radish.

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**Who acts:** vegetable patch, you · **What happens:** be, eat, stem · **To what, where:** place, different parts, potato

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The vegetable patch: peas, potatoes, tomatoes and slugs» 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 (vegetable patch, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:338-the-vegetable-patch-peas-potatoes-tomatoes-and-slugs.lesson:0
# text = A vegetable patch is a place where you eat different parts of plants: the seeds of a pea, the swollen underground stem of a potato, the fruit of a tomato and the root of a radish.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 338-the-vegetable-patch-peas-potatoes-tomatoes-and-slugs.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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	vegetable	vegetable	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	patch	patch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	9	advmod	_	_
8	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	eat	eat	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	_
10	different	different	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	parts	part	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	plants	plant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nmod	_	_
14	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	seeds	seed	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	appos	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:parataxis
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	pea	pea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
22	swollen	swollen	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=24:amod|HaikuPos=VERB:VBN:Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass
23	underground	underground	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	stem	stem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	potato	potato	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	_
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	fruit	fruit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	tomato	tomato	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	root	root	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=30:conj
37	of	of	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	radish	radish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nmod	_	_
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | a vegetable patch | a place |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **eat** | present | you | different parts of plants |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent part=Patient |
| 3 | **stem** |  |  | a potato |  |  |  |  | nom stem «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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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**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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1, R8-pos-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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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