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title: Potato plants grow small green berries that look like little tomatoe… — The vegetable patch: peas, potatoes, tomatoes an… · tree and pragmatics
description: Potato plants grow small green berries that look like little tomatoes but are poisonous; potatoes and tomatoes are close relatives, and only the potato underground is eaten. Who acts: Potato plants, small green berries. A sentence of the lesson «The vegetable patch: peas, potatoes, tomatoes and slug
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# The vegetable patch: peas, potatoes, tomatoes and slugs, sentence 10

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Potato plants grow small green berries that look like little tomatoes but are poisonous; potatoes and tomatoes are close relatives, and only the potato underground is eaten.

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**Who acts:** Potato plants, small green berries · **What happens:** grow, look, be, eat · **To what, where:** small green berries, close relatives, potato underground

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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 (Potato plants, small green berries), 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:10
# text = Potato plants grow small green berries that look like little tomatoes but are poisonous; potatoes and tomatoes are close relatives, and only the potato underground is eaten.
# 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): R5-strong ×1
1	Potato	potato	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	plants	plant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	grow	grow	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
5	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	berries	berry	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
7	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	8	nsubj	_	_
8	look	look	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	_
9	like	like	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	tomatoes	tomato	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
12	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
14	poisonous	poisonous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	conj	_	_
15	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	potatoes	potato	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
18	tomatoes	tomato	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=21:nsubj
19	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
20	close	close	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	relatives	relative	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	conj	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
24	only	only	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	potato	potato	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	underground	underground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nsubj:pass	_	_
28	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	aux:pass	_	_
29	eaten	eat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	conj	_	_
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **grow** | present | Potato plants | small green berries and potatoes and tomatoes and close relatives |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location berry=Theme |
| 2 | **look** | present | small green berries and potatoes and tomatoes and close relatives |  |  |  |  | like little tomatoes | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 3 | **is** | present | small green berries and potatoes and tomatoes and close relatives *not said here* |  |  |  |  | poisonous *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **is a** | present | Potato plants *not said here* | close relatives |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **eat** | present · passive |  | the potato underground |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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): R5-strong ×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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