--- title: A ripe apple gives off a gas called ethylene that tells nearby fruit… — Fruit: how apples, bananas, oranges, strawberrie… · tree and pragmatics description: A ripe apple gives off a gas called ethylene that tells nearby fruit to ripen, which is why a hard green banana shut in a paper bag with an apple ripens fast, and why one rotten apple spoils the bowl. Who acts: ripe apple, gas, nearby fruit, hard green banana. 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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 (ripe apple, gas, nearby fruit, hard green banana), 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:6 # text = A ripe apple gives off a gas called ethylene that tells nearby fruit to ripen, which is why a hard green banana shut in a paper bag with an apple ripens fast, and why one rotten apple spoils the bowl. # 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 ×3, R7-rel-agree ×3 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 ripe ripe ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 apple apple NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 gives give VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 off off ADP RP _ 4 compound:prt _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 gas gas NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 8 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 7 acl _ _ 9 ethylene ethylene NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 xcomp _ _ 10 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 11 nsubj _ _ 11 tells tell VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 acl:relcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:acl:relcl 12 nearby nearby ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 fruit fruit NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ _ 14 to to PART TO _ 15 mark _ _ 15 ripen ripen VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 xcomp _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:acl 16 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 17 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 19 nsubj _ _ 18 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 cop _ _ 19 why why ADV WRB PronType=Int 11 conj _ _ 20 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 21 hard hard ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 22 green green ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 23 banana banana NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 nsubj _ _ 24 shut shut VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 23 acl _ _ 25 in in ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 26 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 27 paper paper NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 compound _ _ 28 bag bag NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=24:nmod 29 with with ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 30 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 apple apple NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=24:nmod 32 ripens ripen VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 advcl:relcl _ _ 33 fast fast ADV RB Degree=Pos 32 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=32:xcomp|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 34 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 35 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 36 why why ADV WRB PronType=Int 4 conj _ _ 37 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 39 nummod _ _ 38 rotten rotten ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 39 amod _ _ 39 apple apple NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 nsubj _ _ 40 spoils spoil VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 32 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=36:advcl 41 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 42 det _ _ 42 bowl bowl NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 obj _ _ 43 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **give off** | present | a ripe apple | a gas | | | | | vn substance\_emission-43.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Source gas=Theme | | 2 | **call** | participle | a gas *not said here* | ethylene | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | a gas | nearby fruit | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent fruit=Recipient clause=Topic | | 4 | **ripen** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | nearby fruit *not said here* | | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 5 | **is** | present | | | | | | why *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **shut** | participle | | a hard green banana *not said here* | | a paper bag | | with a apple | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with apple=Instrument | | 7 | **ripen** | present | a hard green banana | | | | | fast *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 8 | **spoil** | present | one rotten apple | the bowl | | | | | tree rules | 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:346-fruit-how-apples-bananas-oranges-strawberries-and-grapes-grow.lesson:6`. **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 ×3, R7-rel-agree ×3. **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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