--- title: Ginkgo seeds have a fleshy coat that smells like sick or rancid butt… — China's plants: bamboo, ginkgo, lotus, tea and r… · tree and pragmatics description: Ginkgo seeds have a fleshy coat that smells like sick or rancid butter because of an acid in it; only female trees make seeds, so many cities plant only male trees, and the inside nut is cooked and eaten in China in small amounts. Who acts: Ginkgo seeds, fleshy coat, female trees, many cities. 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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 (Ginkgo seeds, fleshy coat, female trees, many cities), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:380-china-s-plants-bamboo-ginkgo-lotus-tea-and-rice-paddies.lesson:15 # text = Ginkgo seeds have a fleshy coat that smells like sick or rancid butter because of an acid in it; only female trees make seeds, so many cities plant only male trees, and the inside nut is cooked and eaten in China in small amounts. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 380-china-s-plants-bamboo-ginkgo-lotus-tea-and-rice-paddies.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 ×3 1 Ginkgo ginkgo NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 seeds seed NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 fleshy fleshy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 coat coat NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 7 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 8 nsubj _ _ 8 smells smell VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 acl:relcl _ _ 9 like like ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 10 sick sick ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 11 or or CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 rancid rancid ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 conj _ _ 13 butter butter NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 14 because because ADP IN ExtPos=ADP 17 case _ _ 15 of of ADP IN _ 14 fixed _ _ 16 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 acid acid NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 18 in in ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 nmod _ _ 20 ; ; PUNCT : _ 24 punct _ _ 21 only only ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=22:advmod 22 female female ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 23 trees tree NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 nsubj _ _ 24 make make VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 25 seeds seed NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 obj _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 27 so so ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=28:advmod 28 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 29 cities city NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 nsubj _ _ 30 plant plant VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 conj _ _ 31 only only ADV RB _ 33 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=32:advmod 32 male male ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 amod _ _ 33 trees tree NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 obj _ _ 34 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 35 and and CCONJ CC _ 40 cc _ _ 36 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 37 inside inside ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 amod _ _ 38 nut nut NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 nsubj:pass _ _ 39 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 40 aux:pass _ _ 40 cooked cook VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 30 conj _ _ 41 and and CCONJ CC _ 42 cc _ _ 42 eaten eat VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 40 conj _ _ 43 in in ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 44 China China PROPN NNP Number=Sing 40 obl _ _ 45 in in ADP IN _ 47 case _ _ 46 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 47 amod _ _ 47 amounts amount NOUN NNS Number=Plur 40 obl _ _ 48 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: neg - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | present | Ginkgo seeds | a fleshy coat | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent coat=Patient | | 2 | **smell** | present | a fleshy coat | | | | | like sick butter; because a acid in seed | vn smell\_emission-43.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **make** | present | female trees | seeds | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset seed=Product | | 4 | **plant** | present | many cities | male trees | | | | | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tree=Patient | | 5 | **cook** | present · passive | | the inside nut | | | | in small amounts; in China | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient in china=Instrument | | 6 | **eat** | participle | | | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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:380-china-s-plants-bamboo-ginkgo-lotus-tea-and-rice-paddies.lesson:15`. **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 ×3. **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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