--- title: A potato is a swollen underground stem full of starch, and its sprou… — How plants grow: seeds, light, water and air · tree and pragmatics description: A potato is a swollen underground stem full of starch, and its sprouts are new shoots; green parts of potatoes can be poisonous. Who acts: potato, sprouts. 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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 (potato, sprouts), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:056-how-plants-grow.lesson:16 # text = A potato is a swollen underground stem full of starch, and its sprouts are new shoots; green parts of potatoes can be poisonous. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 056-how-plants-grow.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, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 potato potato NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 5 swollen swollen ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=7:amod|HaikuPos=VERB:VBN:Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 6 underground underground ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 stem stem NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 8 full full ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 9 of of ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 starch starch NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 13 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 14 nmod:poss _ _ 14 sprouts sprout NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 nsubj _ _ 15 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 cop _ _ 16 new new ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 shoots shoot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:parataxis 18 ; ; PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 19 green green ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 parts part NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 conj _ _ 21 of of ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 potatoes potato NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 nmod _ _ 23 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 25 aux _ _ 24 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 25 cop _ _ 25 poisonous poisonous ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 parataxis _ _ 26 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | a potato | a swollen underground stem and new shoots and green parts of potatoes | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **is a** | present | potato's sprouts | new shoots and green parts of potatoes | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **is** | can | | | | | | poisonous *property* | tree rules | 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:056-how-plants-grow.lesson:16`. **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, R8-pos-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: [How plants grow: seeds, light, water a…, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/56-how-plants-grow/15/) - next →: [How plants grow: seeds, light, water a…, 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/56-how-plants-grow/17/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/56-how-plants-grow/)