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description: Ripe fruit gives off ethylene gas, which makes nearby fruit ripen, and shippers keep bananas cold and away from it on long trips, then release the gas in ripening rooms. Who acts: Ripe fruit, ethylene gas, nearby fruit, shippers. A sentence of the lesson «Fruit: how apples, bananas, oranges, strawbe
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# Fruit: how apples, bananas, oranges, strawberries and grapes grow, sentence 19

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Ripe fruit gives off ethylene gas, which makes nearby fruit ripen, and shippers keep bananas cold and away from it on long trips, then release the gas in ripening rooms.

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**Who acts:** Ripe fruit, ethylene gas, nearby fruit, shippers · **What happens:** give off, make, ripen, keep, release · **To what, where:** ethylene gas, nearby fruit, bananas, long trips, gas

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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 (Ripe fruit, ethylene gas, nearby fruit, shippers), 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:19
# text = Ripe fruit gives off ethylene gas, which makes nearby fruit ripen, and shippers keep bananas cold and away from it on long trips, then release the gas in ripening rooms.
# 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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×4
1	Ripe	ripe	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	fruit	fruit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	gives	give	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	off	off	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
5	ethylene	ethylene	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	gas	gas	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	9	nsubj	_	_
9	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	_
10	nearby	nearby	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	fruit	fruit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	ripen	ripen	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	xcomp	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	shippers	shipper	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj	_	_
16	keep	keep	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
17	bananas	banana	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	_
18	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	xcomp	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=17:amod
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
20	away	away	ADV	RB	_	18	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=22:advmod
21	from	from	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	conj	_	_
23	on	on	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	trips	trip	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	_
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
27	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	28	advmod	_	_
28	release	release	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=16:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	gas	gas	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	_
31	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	32	mark	_	_
32	ripening	ripen	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	33	compound	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=28:advcl
33	rooms	room	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=32:obj
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **give off** | present | Ripe fruit | ethylene gas |  |  |  |  | vn substance\_emission-43.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Source gas=Theme |
| 2 | **make** | present | ethylene gas | nearby fruit |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **ripen** | infinitive | nearby fruit *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **keep** | present | shippers | bananas |  | long trips |  | cold *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent banana=Theme on trip=Location |
| 5 | **release** | present | Ripe fruit *not said here* | the gas |  |  | then | ripening rooms *obl* | vn free-10.6.3-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Causer gas=Source |
| 6 | **ripen** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=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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**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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×4. **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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