--- title: Potatoes that turn green in the light have a bitter poison, and the… — The vegetable patch: peas, potatoes, tomatoes an… · tree and pragmatics description: Potatoes that turn green in the light have a bitter poison, and the green part must not be eaten, so potatoes are kept in the dark. Who acts: Potatoes. 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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 (Potatoes), 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:9 # text = Potatoes that turn green in the light have a bitter poison, and the green part must not be eaten, so potatoes are kept in the dark. # 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, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Potatoes potato NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 nsubj _ _ 2 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 3 nsubj _ _ 3 turn turn VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 acl:relcl _ _ 4 green green ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 xcomp _ _ 5 in in ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 light light NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 8 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=0:root|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 10 bitter bitter ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 poison poison NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 15 green green ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 part part NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nsubj:pass _ _ 17 must must AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 20 aux _ _ 18 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 20 advmod _ _ 19 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 20 aux:pass _ _ 20 eaten eat VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 8 conj _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 22 so so ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 23 potatoes potato NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 nsubj:pass _ _ 24 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 aux:pass _ _ 25 kept keep VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 8 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=20:conj 26 in in ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 dark dark NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl _ _ 29 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=assert | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **turn** | present | Potatoes | | | the light | | green *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme in light=Trajectory | | 2 | **have** | present | Potatoes | a bitter poison | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent poison=Patient | | 3 | **not** **eat** | must · passive | | the green part | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | | 4 | **keep** | present · passive | | potatoes | | the dark | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme in dark=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:9`. **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, 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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