--- title: Cinnamon is the inner bark of a tree, peeled and dried so it curls;… — Nuts, beans, seeds and spices · tree and pragmatics description: Cinnamon is the inner bark of a tree, peeled and dried so it curls; Sri Lanka is famous for true cinnamon, and cheaper cassia comes from a related tree. Who acts: Cinnamon, Sri, cheaper cassia. 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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 (Cinnamon, Sri, cheaper cassia), 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:19 # text = Cinnamon is the inner bark of a tree, peeled and dried so it curls; Sri Lanka is famous for true cinnamon, and cheaper cassia comes from a related tree. # 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): no change 1 Cinnamon cinnamon NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 2 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 4 inner inner ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 bark bark NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 6 of of ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 tree tree NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nmod _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 10 peeled peel VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 parataxis _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 dried dry VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 10 conj _ _ 13 so so ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 14 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 15 curls curl VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 16 ; ; PUNCT : _ 20 punct _ _ 17 Sri Sri PROPN NNP Number=Sing 20 nsubj _ _ 18 Lanka Lanka PROPN NNP Number=Sing 17 flat _ _ 19 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 cop _ _ 20 famous famous ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 parataxis _ _ 21 for for ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 true true ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 23 cinnamon cinnamon NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 26 cheaper cheap ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 27 amod _ _ 27 cassia cassia NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nsubj _ _ 28 comes come VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 conj _ _ 29 from from ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 30 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 31 related related ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 amod _ _ 32 tree tree NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obl _ _ 33 . . PUNCT . _ 5 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 | **is a** | present | Cinnamon | the inner bark | | | | of a tree | tree rules | | 2 | **peel** | participle | | | | | | | vn pit-10.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **dry** | participle | | | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 4 | **curl** | present | cinnamon | | | | | | vn coil-9.6-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **is** | present | Sri | | | | | for true cinnamon; famous *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **come** | present | cheaper cassia | | | a related tree | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from tree=Initial\_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. 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