--- title: Potatoes are cousins of tomatoes, peppers and aubergines; the small… — Rice, maize and potatoes: the plants that feed t… · tree and pragmatics description: Potatoes are cousins of tomatoes, peppers and aubergines; the small green fruits on a potato plant look like little tomatoes but are poisonous, and farmers grow potatoes from seed potatoes. Who acts: Potatoes, small green fruits, farmers. 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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, small green fruits, farmers), 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:20 # text = Potatoes are cousins of tomatoes, peppers and aubergines; the small green fruits on a potato plant look like little tomatoes but are poisonous, and farmers grow potatoes from seed potatoes. # 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 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 cop _ _ 3 cousins cousin NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 4 of of ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 tomatoes tomato NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nmod _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 7 peppers pepper NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 conj _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 9 aubergines aubergine NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 conj _ _ 10 ; ; PUNCT : _ 14 punct _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 12 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 13 green green ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 fruits fruit NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 nsubj _ _ 15 on on ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 16 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 17 potato potato NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 compound _ _ 18 plant plant NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nmod _ _ 19 look look VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 20 like like ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 tomatoes tomato NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 obl _ _ 23 but but CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 24 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 cop _ _ 25 poisonous poisonous ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 conj _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 28 farmers farmer NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 nsubj _ _ 29 grow grow VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 30 potatoes potato NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 obj _ _ 31 from from ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 32 seed seed NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 compound _ _ 33 potatoes potato NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=30:nmod 34 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed polarity=none | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | Potatoes | cousins | | | | of tomatoes and peppers and aubergines | tree rules | | 2 | **look** | present | the small green fruits on a potato plant | | | | | like little tomatoes | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 3 | **is** | present | the small green fruits on a potato plant *not said here* | | | | | poisonous *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **grow** | present | farmers | potatoes | | seed potatoes | | | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP.product PP.material»: agent=Agent potato=Product from potato=Material | 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:20`. **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. **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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