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title: Cut an apple across the middle and you find a five-pointed star: fiv… — Fruit: how apples, bananas, oranges, strawberrie… · tree and pragmatics
description: Cut an apple across the middle and you find a five-pointed star: five little rooms, one for each part of the flower, with up to two pips in each. Who acts: you. A sentence of the lesson «Fruit: how apples, bananas, oranges, strawberries and grapes grow» of the biology course of Mova's primary school
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# Fruit: how apples, bananas, oranges, strawberries and grapes grow, sentence 1

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Cut an apple across the middle and you find a five-pointed star: five little rooms, one for each part of the flower, with up to two pips in each.

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** cut, find · **To what, where:** apple, middle, pointed star

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Fruit: how apples, bananas, oranges, strawberries and grapes grow» 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 (you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:346-fruit-how-apples-bananas-oranges-strawberries-and-grapes-grow.lesson:1
# text = Cut an apple across the middle and you find a five-pointed star: five little rooms, one for each part of the flower, with up to two pips in each.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 346-fruit-how-apples-bananas-oranges-strawberries-and-grapes-grow.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 ×1
1	Cut	cut	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	apple	apple	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	across	across	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	middle	middle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	find	find	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
11	five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	13	compound	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:nummod
12	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	11	punct	_	_
13	pointed	pointed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	star	star	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
15	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
16	five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	18	nummod	_	_
17	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	rooms	room	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	appos	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	18	appos	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=18:nmod
21	for	for	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	23	det	_	_
23	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	flower	flower	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	_
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
28	with	with	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
29	up	up	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
30	to	to	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	32	nummod	_	_
32	pips	pip	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	conj	_	_
33	in	in	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	32	nmod	_	_
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	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 | **cut** | imperative | you *not said here* | a apple |  | the middle |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset apple=Product |
| 2 | **find** | present | you | a pointed star |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent star=Topic |

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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:346-fruit-how-apples-bananas-oranges-strawberries-and-grapes-grow.lesson:1`.

**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 ×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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