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title: In hot countries oranges can be ripe and sweet while still green, be… — Fruit: how apples, bananas, oranges, strawberrie… · tree and pragmatics
description: In hot countries oranges can be ripe and sweet while still green, because the skin turns orange only when cool nights break down the green colour. Who acts: oranges, skin, cool nights. A sentence of the lesson «Fruit: how apples, bananas, oranges, strawberries and grapes grow» of the biology course 
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# Fruit: how apples, bananas, oranges, strawberries and grapes grow, sentence 14

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In hot countries oranges can be ripe and sweet while still green, because the skin turns orange only when cool nights break down the green colour.

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**Who acts:** oranges, skin, cool nights · **What happens:** be, turn, break down · **To what, where:** hot countries, green colour

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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 (oranges, skin, cool nights), 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:14
# text = In hot countries oranges can be ripe and sweet while still green, because the skin turns orange only when cool nights break down the green colour.
# 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): no change
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	countries	country	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
4	oranges	orange	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
5	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
6	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	cop	_	_
7	ripe	ripe	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	sweet	sweet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	conj	_	_
10	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
11	still	still	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	advcl	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	skin	skin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
17	turns	turn	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	advcl	_	_
18	orange	orange	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	xcomp	_	_
19	only	only	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
20	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	23	advmod	_	_
21	cool	cool	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	nights	night	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nsubj	_	_
23	break	break	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	advcl	_	_
24	down	down	ADP	RP	_	23	compound:prt	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	colour	colour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	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 | **is** | can | oranges |  |  | hot countries |  | ripe *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  | oranges *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **turn** | present | the skin |  |  |  |  | orange *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **break down** | present | cool nights | the green colour |  |  |  |  | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent colour=Patient |

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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:14`.

**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.

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