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title: Cocoa pods grow on the trunk and big branches, hold about 20 to 50 b… — Sugar, chocolate, tea and coffee: the plants beh… · tree and pragmatics
description: Cocoa pods grow on the trunk and big branches, hold about 20 to 50 beans in sweet pulp, and their tiny flowers are pollinated by small flies called midges. Who acts: Cocoa pods, small flies. A sentence of the lesson «Sugar, chocolate, tea and coffee: the plants behind treats» of the biology course o
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# Sugar, chocolate, tea and coffee: the plants behind treats, sentence 13

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Cocoa pods grow on the trunk and big branches, hold about 20 to 50 beans in sweet pulp, and their tiny flowers are pollinated by small flies called midges.

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**Who acts:** Cocoa pods, small flies · **What happens:** grow, hold, pollinate, call · **To what, where:** trunk, 20 beans, sweet pulp, tiny flowers, midges · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Cocoa pods, small flies), 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:13
# text = Cocoa pods grow on the trunk and big branches, hold about 20 to 50 beans in sweet pulp, and their tiny flowers are pollinated by small flies called midges.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Cocoa	cocoa	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	pods	pod	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	grow	grow	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	on	on	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	trunk	trunk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	branches	branch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	hold	hold	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
12	about	about	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	20	20	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	16	nummod	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	50	50	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	13	nmod	_	_
16	beans	bean	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	sweet	sweet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	pulp	pulp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
22	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
23	tiny	tiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	flowers	flower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nsubj:pass	_	_
25	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux:pass	_	_
26	pollinated	pollinate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
27	by	by	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	flies	fly	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obl:agent	_	_
30	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	29	acl	_	_
31	midges	midge	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	xcomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=30:obj
32	.	.	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 | **grow** | present | Cocoa pods |  |  | the trunk and big branches |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on trunk=Location |
| 2 | **hold** | present | Cocoa pods *not said here* | 20 beans |  | sweet pulp |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent bean=Theme in pulp=Location |
| 3 | **pollinate** | present · passive | small flies | pods's tiny flowers |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **call** | participle | small flies *not said here* | midges |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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:347-sugar-chocolate-tea-and-coffee-the-plants-behind-treats.lesson:13`.

**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): 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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