--- title: A monk called Gregor Mendel grew thousands of pea plants and counted… — Nuts, beans, seeds and spices · tree and pragmatics description: A monk called Gregor Mendel grew thousands of pea plants and counted their colours and shapes, and found out how features pass from parents to children. Who acts: monk, features. 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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 (monk, features), 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:3 # text = A monk called Gregor Mendel grew thousands of pea plants and counted their colours and shapes, and found out how features pass from parents to children. # 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 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 monk monk NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 3 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 2 acl _ _ 4 Gregor Gregor PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 xcomp _ _ 5 Mendel Mendel PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 flat _ _ 6 grew grow VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 thousands thousand NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obj _ _ 8 of of ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 pea pea NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 compound _ _ 10 plants plant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nmod _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 counted count VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 13 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 14 nmod:poss _ _ 14 colours colour NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 obj _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 16 shapes shape NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 conj _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 19 found find VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 20 out out ADP RP _ 19 compound:prt _ _ 21 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 23 advmod _ _ 22 features feature NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 nsubj _ _ 23 pass pass VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 ccomp _ _ 24 from from ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 parents parent NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 obl _ _ 26 to to ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 27 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 obl _ _ 28 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **call** | participle | | a monk *not said here* | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **grow** | past | a monk | thousands of pea plants | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location thousand=Theme | | 3 | **count** | past | a monk *not said here* | plants's colours and shapes | | | | | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent colour=Theme | | 4 | **find out** | past | a monk *not said here* | | | | | | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 5 | **pass** | present | features | | children | | | from parents | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V PP.initial\_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme from parent=Initial\_Location to child=Destination | 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:3`. **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): no change. **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, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/348-nuts-beans-seeds-and-spices/2/) - next →: [Nuts, beans, seeds and spices, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/348-nuts-beans-seeds-and-spices/4/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/348-nuts-beans-seeds-and-spices/)