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title: The cashew nut grows under a fleshy cashew apple, and its shell hold… — Nuts, beans, seeds and spices · tree and pragmatics
description: The cashew nut grows under a fleshy cashew apple, and its shell holds an oily liquid that burns skin, so cashews are sold shelled and cooked. Who acts: cashew nut, shell, oily liquid. A sentence of the lesson «Nuts, beans, seeds and spices» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its dep
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# Nuts, beans, seeds and spices, sentence 15

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The cashew nut grows under a fleshy cashew apple, and its shell holds an oily liquid that burns skin, so cashews are sold shelled and cooked.

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**Who acts:** cashew nut, shell, oily liquid · **What happens:** grow, hold, burn, sell, shell, cook · **To what, where:** fleshy cashew apple, oily liquid, skin, cashews

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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 (cashew nut, shell, oily liquid), 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:15
# text = The cashew nut grows under a fleshy cashew apple, and its shell holds an oily liquid that burns skin, so cashews are sold shelled and cooked.
# 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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	cashew	cashew	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	nut	nut	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	grows	grow	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	under	under	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
7	fleshy	fleshy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
8	cashew	cashew	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	apple	apple	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
12	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	shell	shell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
14	holds	hold	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
15	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	oily	oily	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	liquid	liquid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
18	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	19	nsubj	_	_
19	burns	burn	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	acl:relcl	_	_
20	skin	skin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
22	so	so	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=25:mark|HaikuPos=SCONJ:IN:_
23	cashews	cashew	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nsubj:pass	_	_
24	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux:pass	_	_
25	sold	sell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	conj	_	_
26	shelled	shell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	25	xcomp	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	cooked	cook	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	26	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=25:conj
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **grow** | present | the cashew nut |  |  | a fleshy cashew apple |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme under apple=Location |
| 2 | **hold** | present | apple's shell | a oily liquid |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent liquid=Theme |
| 3 | **burn** | present | a oily liquid | skin |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent skin=Theme |
| 4 | **sell** | present · passive |  | cashews |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **shell** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn pelt-17.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **cook** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

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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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**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 ×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.

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