--- title: Sugar comes from the stems of sugar cane, a giant grass taller than… — Sugar, chocolate, tea and coffee: the plants beh… · tree and pragmatics description: Sugar comes from the stems of sugar cane, a giant grass taller than a grown-up, or from the pale roots of sugar beet in cool countries. Who acts: Sugar. A sentence of the lesson «Sugar, chocolate, tea and coffee: the plants behind treats» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its depen --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/347-sugar-chocolate-tea-and-coffee-the-plants-behind-treats/1/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/) / [Sugar, chocolate, tea and coffee: the…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/347-sugar-chocolate-tea-and-coffee-the-plants-behind-treats/) / 1 # Sugar, chocolate, tea and coffee: the plants behind treats, sentence 1 Sugar comes from the stems of sugar cane, a giant grass taller than a grown-up, or from the pale roots of sugar beet in cool countries. **Who acts:** Sugar · **What happens:** come, grow up, stem · **To what, where:** stems, sugar cane This is a sentence of the lesson «Sugar, chocolate, tea and coffee: the plants behind treats» 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 (Sugar), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:347-sugar-chocolate-tea-and-coffee-the-plants-behind-treats.lesson:1 # text = Sugar comes from the stems of sugar cane, a giant grass taller than a grown-up, or from the pale roots of sugar beet in cool countries. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 347-sugar-chocolate-tea-and-coffee-the-plants-behind-treats.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): R4-particle ×1, R5-strong ×1 1 Sugar sugar NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 comes come VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 from from ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 stems stem NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obl _ _ 6 of of ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 sugar sugar NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 compound _ _ 8 cane cane NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nmod _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 11 giant giant ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 grass grass NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 13 taller tall ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 2 advcl _ _ 14 than than SCONJ IN _ 16 mark _ _ 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:det 16 grown grow VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 13 advcl _ _ 17 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 18 punct _ _ 18 up up PART RP _ 16 compound:prt _ Agree=R4-particle|Haiku=16:compound 19 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 20 or or CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 21 from from ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 23 pale pale ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 24 roots root NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obl _ _ 25 of of ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 sugar sugar NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 compound _ _ 27 beet beet NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nmod _ _ 28 in in ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 cool cool ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 30 countries country NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 nmod _ _ 31 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **come** | present | Sugar | | | the stems of sugar cane | | from the pale roots of sugar beet in cool countries | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme from stem=Initial\_Location from root=Destination | | 2 | **grow up** | participle | Sugar *not said here* | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **stem** | | | sugar cane | | | | | nom stem «communication transitive»: of=patient | 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:347-sugar-chocolate-tea-and-coffee-the-plants-behind-treats.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): R4-particle ×1, 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. 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