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title: A peanut is not even a true nut: it is a cousin of peas and beans, a… — Nuts, beans, seeds and spices · tree and pragmatics
description: A peanut is not even a true nut: it is a cousin of peas and beans, and after its yellow flower fades the stalk bends down and pushes the pod into the soil to grow underground. Who acts: peanut, yellow flower, stalk. A sentence of the lesson «Nuts, beans, seeds and spices» of the biology course of Mo
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# Nuts, beans, seeds and spices, sentence 1

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A peanut is not even a true nut: it is a cousin of peas and beans, and after its yellow flower fades the stalk bends down and pushes the pod into the soil to grow underground.

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**Who acts:** peanut, yellow flower, stalk · **What happens:** not be, be, fade, bend down, push, grow · **To what, where:** true nut, cousin, pod, soil

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Nuts, beans, seeds and spices» 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 (peanut, yellow flower, stalk), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:348-nuts-beans-seeds-and-spices.lesson:1
# text = A peanut is not even a true nut: it is a cousin of peas and beans, and after its yellow flower fades the stalk bends down and pushes the pod into the soil to grow underground.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 348-nuts-beans-seeds-and-spices.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 ×4, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	peanut	peanut	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	8	advmod	_	_
5	even	even	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	true	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	nut	nut	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	parataxis	_	_
9	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
10	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
11	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	cousin	cousin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:conj
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	peas	pea	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nmod	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	beans	bean	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	conj	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=24:punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
20	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=23:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_
21	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
22	yellow	yellow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	flower	flower	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=24:obl
24	fades	fade	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	advcl	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	stalk	stalk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
27	bends	bend	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
28	down	down	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	pushes	push	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	conj	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	pod	pod	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=27:obj
33	into	into	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	soil	soil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=27:obl
36	to	to	PART	TO	_	37	mark	_	_
37	grow	grow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	advcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=35:acl
38	underground	underground	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	_
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=27:punct
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- 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 | **not** **is a** | present | a peanut | a true nut |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | present | peanut | a cousin |  |  |  | of peas and beans | tree rules |
| 3 | **fade** | present | peanut's yellow flower |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **bend down** | present | the stalk |  |  |  |  | down *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **push** | present | the stalk *not said here* | the pod |  | the soil |  |  | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent pod=Theme into soil=Destination |
| 6 | **grow** | to-infinitive | the stalk *not said here* |  |  |  |  | underground *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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:348-nuts-beans-seeds-and-spices.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): R5-strong ×4, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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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