--- title: Scientists call a tomato a fruit because it holds seeds, it turns re… — The vegetable patch: peas, potatoes, tomatoes an… · tree and pragmatics description: Scientists call a tomato a fruit because it holds seeds, it turns red as it ripens by making a red colour called lycopene, and tomatoes first came from South America. Who acts: Scientists, tomato, it, red colour. 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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 (Scientists, tomato, it, red colour), 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:11 # text = Scientists call a tomato a fruit because it holds seeds, it turns red as it ripens by making a red colour called lycopene, and tomatoes first came from South America. # 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): no change 1 Scientists scientist NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 call call VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 tomato tomato NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 fruit fruit NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 xcomp _ _ 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 holds hold VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 advcl _ _ 10 seeds seed NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obj _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 12 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 13 turns turn VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 14 red red ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 xcomp _ _ 15 as as SCONJ IN _ 17 mark _ _ 16 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 17 ripens ripen VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 advcl _ _ 18 by by SCONJ IN _ 19 mark _ _ 19 making make VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 17 advcl _ _ 20 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 21 red red ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 colour colour NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obj _ _ 23 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 22 acl _ _ 24 lycopene lycopene NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 xcomp _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 27 tomatoes tomato NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 nsubj _ _ 28 first first ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 29 advmod _ _ 29 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 30 from from ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 31 South South PROPN NNP Number=Sing 32 compound _ _ 32 America America PROPN NNP Number=Sing 29 obl _ _ 33 . . PUNCT . _ 2 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 | **call** | present | Scientists | a tomato | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent tomato=Recipient | | 2 | **hold** | present | tomato | seeds | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent seed=Theme | | 3 | **turn** | present | it | | | | | red *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **ripen** | present | tomato | | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 5 | **make** | gerund | tomato *not said here* | a red colour | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset colour=Product | | 6 | **call** | participle | a red colour *not said here* | lycopene | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **come** | past | tomatoes | | | South America | | first *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from america=Initial\_Location | 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:338-the-vegetable-patch-peas-potatoes-tomatoes-and-slugs.lesson:11`. **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): no change. **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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