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title: A potato turned green in the light has also made a bitter natural po… — Rice, maize and potatoes: the plants that feed t… · tree and pragmatics
description: A potato turned green in the light has also made a bitter natural poison called solanine, so green parts and sprouts should be cut away and potatoes stored in the dark. Who acts: potato, bitter natural poison. A sentence of the lesson «Rice, maize and potatoes: the plants that feed the world» of the
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# Rice, maize and potatoes: the plants that feed the world, sentence 19

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A potato turned green in the light has also made a bitter natural poison called solanine, so green parts and sprouts should be cut away and potatoes stored in the dark.

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**Who acts:** potato, bitter natural poison · **What happens:** turn, make, call, cut away, store · **To what, where:** potato, light, bitter natural poison, solanine, green parts, potatoes · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Rice, maize and potatoes: the plants that feed the world» 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 (potato, bitter natural poison), 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:19
# text = A potato turned green in the light has also made a bitter natural poison called solanine, so green parts and sprouts should be cut away and potatoes stored in the dark.
# 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): no change
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	potato	potato	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
3	turned	turn	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	2	acl	_	_
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	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
9	also	also	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
12	bitter	bitter	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
13	natural	natural	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	poison	poison	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
15	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	acl	_	_
16	solanine	solanine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	xcomp	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
18	so	so	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
19	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	parts	part	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nsubj:pass	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	sprouts	sprout	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	conj	_	_
23	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
24	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	aux:pass	_	_
25	cut	cut	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	conj	_	_
26	away	away	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	potatoes	potato	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	conj	_	_
29	stored	store	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	28	acl	_	_
30	in	in	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	dark	dark	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	_
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **turn** | participle |  | a potato *not said here* |  | the light |  | green *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme in light=Trajectory |
| 2 | **make** | present · perfect | a potato | a bitter natural poison |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset poison=Product |
| 3 | **call** | participle | a bitter natural poison *not said here* | solanine |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **cut away** | should · passive |  | green parts and sprouts |  |  |  | away *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product |
| 5 | **store** | participle |  | potatoes *not said here* |  | the dark |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in dark=Location |

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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.

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**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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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