--- title: Corn cobs nearly always have an even number of rows, often 12 to 20,… — Rice, maize and potatoes: the plants that feed t… · tree and pragmatics description: Corn cobs nearly always have an even number of rows, often 12 to 20, because the kernels grow in pairs, and one cob carries about 500 to 800 kernels. Who acts: Corn cobs, kernels, one cob. 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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 (Corn cobs, kernels, one cob), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:345-rice-maize-and-potatoes-the-plants-that-feed-the-world.lesson:14 # text = Corn cobs nearly always have an even number of rows, often 12 to 20, because the kernels grow in pairs, and one cob carries about 500 to 800 kernels. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 345-rice-maize-and-potatoes-the-plants-that-feed-the-world.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, R7-rel-agree ×3, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Corn corn NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 cobs cob NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 3 nearly nearly ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:advmod 4 always always ADV RB PronType=Tot 5 advmod _ _ 5 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=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 6 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 even even ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_ 8 number number NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 9 of of ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 rows row NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 nmod _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 12 often often ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 13 12 12 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 10 appos _ _ 14 to to ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 20 20 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 13 nmod _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 17 because because SCONJ IN _ 20 mark _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 kernels kernel NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 nsubj _ _ 20 grow grow VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj 21 in in ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 pairs pair NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 obl _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 25 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 26 nummod _ _ 26 cob cob NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nsubj _ _ 27 carries carry VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 28 about about ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=29:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 29 500 500 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 32 nummod _ _ 30 to to ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 31 800 800 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 29 nmod _ _ 32 kernels kernel NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 obj _ _ 33 . . PUNCT . _ 5 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 | **have** | present | Corn cobs | a even number of rows | | | | always *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent number=Patient | | 2 | **grow** | present | the kernels | | | pairs | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in pair=Location | | 3 | **carry** | present | one cob | 500 kernels | | | | | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kernel=Theme | 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:345-rice-maize-and-potatoes-the-plants-that-feed-the-world.lesson:14`. **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, R7-rel-agree ×3, 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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