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title: They came from the cold Andes mountains of South America, where thou… — Rice, maize and potatoes: the plants that feed t… · tree and pragmatics
description: They came from the cold Andes mountains of South America, where thousands of purple, red and knobbly kinds still grow. Who acts: Potatoes, thousands. A sentence of the lesson «Rice, maize and potatoes: the plants that feed the world» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency
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# Rice, maize and potatoes: the plants that feed the world, sentence 7

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They came from the cold Andes mountains of South America, where thousands of purple, red and knobbly kinds still grow.

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**Who acts:** Potatoes, thousands · **What happens:** come, grow · **To what, where:** cold Andes mountains

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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 (Potatoes, thousands), 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:7
# text = They came from the cold Andes mountains of South America, where thousands of purple, red and knobbly kinds still grow.
# 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	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	from	from	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
5	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
6	Andes	Andes	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	7	compound	_	_
7	mountains	mountain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	South	South	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	America	America	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
12	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	22	advmod	_	_
13	thousands	thousand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nsubj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
15	purple	purple	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	conj	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	knobbly	knobbly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	conj	_	_
20	kinds	kind	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nmod	_	_
21	still	still	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	grow	grow	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	acl:relcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:acl:relcl
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **come** | past | Potatoes *= potato* |  |  | the cold Andes mountains of South America |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from mountain=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **grow** | present | thousands of purple kinds |  |  |  | still |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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**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:7`.

**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.

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

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