--- title: A coconut has three eyes, but only one is soft, and the baby plant p… — Nuts, beans, seeds and spices · tree and pragmatics description: A coconut has three eyes, but only one is soft, and the baby plant pushes out of it; its thick husk lets it float for months and sprout on far beaches. Who acts: coconut, one, baby plant, thick husk. 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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 (coconut, one, baby plant, thick husk), 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:14 # text = A coconut has three eyes, but only one is soft, and the baby plant pushes out of it; its thick husk lets it float for months and sprout on far beaches. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 coconut coconut NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 5 nummod _ _ 5 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 7 but but CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 8 only only ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 9 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 11 nsubj _ _ 10 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 cop _ _ 11 soft soft ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 conj _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 15 baby baby NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 compound _ _ 16 plant plant NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nsubj _ _ 17 pushes push VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 18 out out ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 of of ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 obl _ _ 21 ; ; PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 22 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 24 nmod:poss _ _ 23 thick thick ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 24 husk husk NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nsubj _ _ 25 lets let VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj 26 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 obj _ _ 27 float float VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 25 xcomp _ _ 28 for for ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 29 months month NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 obl _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 31 sprout sprout VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 27 conj _ _ 32 on on ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 33 far far ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 amod _ _ 34 beaches beach NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 obl _ _ 35 . . PUNCT . _ 3 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 | **have** | present | a coconut | three eyes | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Patient | | 2 | **is** | present | one | | | | | soft *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **push out** | present | the baby plant | coconut | | | | | vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | | 4 | **let** | present | coconut's thick husk | coconut | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **float** | infinitive | coconut *not said here* | | | | month | | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **sprout** | infinitive | coconut *not said here* | | | far beaches | | | vn entity\_specific\_modes\_being-47.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on beach=Location | 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:348-nuts-beans-seeds-and-spices.lesson:14`. **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/). - ← previous: [Nuts, beans, seeds and spices, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/348-nuts-beans-seeds-and-spices/13/) - next →: [Nuts, beans, seeds and spices, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/348-nuts-beans-seeds-and-spices/15/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/348-nuts-beans-seeds-and-spices/)