--- title: Peel back the husk and each long silky thread leads to one kernel; p… — Rice, maize and potatoes: the plants that feed t… · tree and pragmatics description: Peel back the husk and each long silky thread leads to one kernel; pollen from the feathery tassel on top must land on that silk or the kernel never grows. Who acts: you, long silky thread, pollen. 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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 (you, long silky thread, pollen), 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:4 # text = Peel back the husk and each long silky thread leads to one kernel; pollen from the feathery tassel on top must land on that silk or the kernel never grows. # 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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Peel peel VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 back back ADV RB _ 1 advmod _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 husk husk NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 5 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 6 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 9 det _ _ 7 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:amod 8 silky silky ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:amod 9 thread thread NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 10 leads lead VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 conj _ _ 11 to to ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 13 nummod _ _ 13 kernel kernel NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 14 ; ; PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 15 pollen pollen NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nsubj _ _ 16 from from ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 18 feathery feathery ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 tassel tassel NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nmod _ _ 20 on on ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 top top NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nmod _ _ 22 must must AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 23 aux _ _ 23 land land VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 1 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=1:conj 24 on on ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 that that DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 26 det _ _ 26 silk silk NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ _ 27 or or CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 kernel kernel NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 conj _ _ 30 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 31 advmod _ _ 31 grows grow VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=23:advcl 32 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **peel back** | imperative | you *not said here* | the husk | | | | | vn pit-10.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent husk=Source | | 2 | **lead** | present | each long silky thread | | | | | to one kernel | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition to kernel=Patient | | 3 | **land** | must | pollen from the feathery tassel on top | | | that silk or the kernel | | | vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme on silk=Destination | | 4 | **not** **grow** | present | pollen from the feathery tassel on top *not said here* | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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:4`. **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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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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