--- title: Potatoes are swollen underground stems that store food, and the eyes… — The vegetable patch: peas, potatoes, tomatoes an… · tree and pragmatics description: Potatoes are swollen underground stems that store food, and the eyes on a potato are buds that can grow into new plants. Who acts: underground stems, eyes, buds. A sentence of the lesson «The vegetable patch: peas, potatoes, tomatoes and slugs» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/338-the-vegetable-patch-peas-potatoes-tomatoes-and-slugs/8/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/) / [The vegetable patch: peas, potatoes, t…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/338-the-vegetable-patch-peas-potatoes-tomatoes-and-slugs/) / 8 # The vegetable patch: peas, potatoes, tomatoes and slugs, sentence 8 Potatoes are swollen underground stems that store food, and the eyes on a potato are buds that can grow into new plants. **Who acts:** underground stems, eyes, buds · **What happens:** swell, store, be, grow · **To what, where:** Potatoes, food, buds, new plants 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 (underground stems, eyes, buds), 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:8 # text = Potatoes are swollen underground stems that store food, and the eyes on a potato are buds that can grow into new plants. # 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 Potatoes potato NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 2 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 aux:pass _ _ 3 swollen swell VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 4 underground underground ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 stems stem NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ 6 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 7 nsubj _ _ 7 store store VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 acl:relcl _ _ 8 food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 nsubj _ _ 13 on on ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 potato potato NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nmod _ _ 16 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 cop _ _ 17 buds bud NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 conj _ _ 18 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 20 nsubj _ _ 19 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 20 aux _ _ 20 grow grow VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 17 acl:relcl _ _ 21 into into ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 new new ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 23 plants plant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 obl _ _ 24 . . 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 | **swell** | present · passive | | Potatoes | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **store** | present | underground stems | food | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Theme | | 3 | **is a** | present | the eyes on a potato | buds | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **grow** | can | buds | | | | | into new plants *result* | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into plant=Result | 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:8`. **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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