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title: Coffee plants first grew wild in Ethiopia; the story of a goatherd n… — Sugar, chocolate, tea and coffee: the plants beh… · tree and pragmatics
description: Coffee plants first grew wild in Ethiopia; the story of a goatherd named Kaldi whose goats danced after eating the berries is a legend nobody can prove. Who acts: Coffee plants, goats, story, nobody. A sentence of the lesson «Sugar, chocolate, tea and coffee: the plants behind treats» of the biology
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# Sugar, chocolate, tea and coffee: the plants behind treats, sentence 21

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Coffee plants first grew wild in Ethiopia; the story of a goatherd named Kaldi whose goats danced after eating the berries is a legend nobody can prove.

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**Who acts:** Coffee plants, goats, story, nobody · **What happens:** grow, name, dance, eat, be, prove · **To what, where:** Ethiopia, goatherd, berries, legend

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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 (Coffee plants, goats, story, nobody), 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:21
# text = Coffee plants first grew wild in Ethiopia; the story of a goatherd named Kaldi whose goats danced after eating the berries is a legend nobody can prove.
# 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Coffee	coffee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	plants	plant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	4	advmod	_	_
4	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	xcomp	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Ethiopia	Ethiopia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=4:punct
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	goatherd	goatherd	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
14	named	name	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	acl	_	_
15	Kaldi	Kaldi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	xcomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=14:obj
16	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	goats	goat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nsubj	_	_
18	danced	dance	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	acl:relcl	_	_
19	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
20	eating	eat	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	18	advcl	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	berries	berry	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obj	_	_
23	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	legend	legend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
26	nobody	nobody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	28	nsubj	_	_
27	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
28	prove	prove	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	acl:relcl	_	_
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grow** | past | Coffee plants |  |  | Ethiopia |  | first, wild *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in ethiopia=Location |
| 2 | **name** | participle |  | a goatherd *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **dance** | past | goats |  |  |  |  |  | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **eat** | gerund | goats *not said here* | the berries |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent berry=Patient |
| 5 | **is a** | present | the story of a goatherd | a legend |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **prove** | can | nobody | a legend *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent legend=Theme |

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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:21`.

**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): R2-punct-next ×1, 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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