--- title: A monk called Gregor Mendel grew thousands of pea plants to learn ho… — The vegetable patch: peas, potatoes, tomatoes an… · tree and pragmatics description: A monk called Gregor Mendel grew thousands of pea plants to learn how features pass from parents to their young, and his work started the science of genetics. Who acts: monk, features, work. 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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 (monk, features, work), 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:7 # text = A monk called Gregor Mendel grew thousands of pea plants to learn how features pass from parents to their young, and his work started the science of genetics. # 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): R8-pos-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 monk monk NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 3 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 2 acl _ _ 4 Gregor Gregor PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 xcomp _ _ 5 Mendel Mendel PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 flat _ _ 6 grew grow VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 thousands thousand NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obj _ _ 8 of of ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 pea pea NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 compound _ _ 10 plants plant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nmod _ _ 11 to to PART TO _ 12 mark _ _ 12 learn learn VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 advcl _ _ 13 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 15 advmod _ _ 14 features feature NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 nsubj _ _ 15 pass pass VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 ccomp _ _ 16 from from ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 parents parent NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 obl _ _ 18 to to ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 20 nmod:poss _ _ 20 young young ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 obl _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=15:obl|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 21 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 23 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 24 nmod:poss _ _ 24 work work NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nsubj _ _ 25 started start VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 science science NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obj _ _ 28 of of ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 29 genetics genetics NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 nmod _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **call** | participle | | a monk *not said here* | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **grow** | past | a monk | thousands of pea plants | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location thousand=Theme | | 3 | **learn** | to-infinitive | a monk *not said here* | | | | | | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **pass** | present | features | | | features's young | | from parents | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V PP.initial\_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme from parent=Initial\_Location to young=Destination | | 5 | **start** | past | monk's work | the science of genetics | | | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent science=Eventuality | | 6 | **work** | | monk | | | | | | nom work «act intransitive»: poss=agent | 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:7`. **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): 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. 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