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title: A fruit is the part of a plant that grows from the flower and holds… — Seeds and fruit and how they travel · tree and pragmatics
description: A fruit is the part of a plant that grows from the flower and holds the seeds, so tomatoes, peppers, cucumbers and pea pods are fruits to a scientist, though cooks call them vegetables; cut an apple across and you find a star of seeds. Who acts: fruit, plant, tomatoes, cooks. A sentence of the lesso
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# Seeds and fruit and how they travel, sentence 12

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A fruit is the part of a plant that grows from the flower and holds the seeds, so tomatoes, peppers, cucumbers and pea pods are fruits to a scientist, though cooks call them vegetables; cut an apple across and you find a star of seeds.

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**Who acts:** fruit, plant, tomatoes, cooks, you · **What happens:** be, grow, hold, call, cut, find · **To what, where:** part, flower, seeds, fruits, pods, apple · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Seeds and fruit and how they travel» 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 (fruit, plant, tomatoes, cooks), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:059-seeds-and-fruit-and-how-they-travel.lesson:12
# text = A fruit is the part of a plant that grows from the flower and holds the seeds, so tomatoes, peppers, cucumbers and pea pods are fruits to a scientist, though cooks call them vegetables; cut an apple across and you find a star of seeds.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 059-seeds-and-fruit-and-how-they-travel.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
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	fruit	fruit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	part	part	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	plant	plant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
9	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	10	nsubj	_	_
10	grows	grow	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	acl:relcl	_	_
11	from	from	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	flower	flower	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	holds	hold	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	seeds	seed	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
19	so	so	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
20	tomatoes	tomato	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	nsubj	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	peppers	pepper	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	conj	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
24	cucumbers	cucumber	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	conj	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
26	pea	pea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	pods	pod	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	conj	_	_
28	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	cop	_	_
29	fruits	fruit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj
30	to	to	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	scientist	scientist	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
34	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	36	mark	_	_
35	cooks	cook	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	nsubj	_	_
36	call	call	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	advcl	_	_
37	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	obj	_	_
38	vegetables	vegetable	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	obj	_	_
39	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	40	punct	_	_
40	cut	cut	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
41	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
42	apple	apple	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	obj	_	_
43	across	across	ADV	RB	_	40	advmod	_	_
44	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	46	cc	_	_
45	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	46	nsubj	_	_
46	find	find	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	40	conj	_	_
47	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	48	det	_	_
48	star	star	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	obj	_	_
49	of	of	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
50	seeds	seed	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	48	nmod	_	_
51	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **is a** | present | a fruit | the part |  |  |  | of a plant | tree rules |
| 2 | **grow** | present | a plant |  |  | the flower |  | to a scientist *result* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient from flower=Initial\_State to scientist=Result |
| 3 | **hold** | present | a plant *not said here* | the seeds |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent seed=Theme |
| 4 | **is a** | present | tomatoes and peppers and cucumbers and pea pods | fruits |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **call** | present | cooks | pods *= pod* |  |  |  |  | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme vegetable=Result |
| 6 | **cut** | infinitive |  | a apple |  |  |  | across *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset apple=Product |
| 7 | **find** | present | you | a star of seeds |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent star=Topic |

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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): 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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