--- title: Unripe fruits are often green, hard and sour so animals do not eat t… — Seeds and fruit and how they travel · tree and pragmatics description: Unripe fruits are often green, hard and sour so animals do not eat them before the seeds are ready; ripe ones turn soft, sweet and bright. Who acts: Unripe fruits, animals, seeds, ripe ones. 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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 (Unripe fruits, animals, seeds, ripe ones), 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:13 # text = Unripe fruits are often green, hard and sour so animals do not eat them before the seeds are ready; ripe ones turn soft, sweet and bright. # 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): no change 1 Unripe unripe ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 fruits fruit NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 3 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 4 often often ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 5 green green ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 7 hard hard ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 conj _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 9 sour sour ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 conj _ _ 10 so so ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 11 animals animal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 nsubj _ _ 12 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 aux _ _ 13 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 14 advmod _ _ 14 eat eat VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 parataxis _ _ 15 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 obj _ _ 16 before before SCONJ IN _ 20 mark _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 seeds seed NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 nsubj _ _ 19 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 cop _ _ 20 ready ready ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 advcl _ _ 21 ; ; PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 22 ripe ripe ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 23 ones one NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 nsubj _ _ 24 turn turn VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 25 soft soft ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 xcomp _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 27 sweet sweet ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 conj _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 29 bright bright ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 conj _ _ 30 . . 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** | present | Unripe fruits | | | | | green, often *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **be** | | Unripe fruits *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **be** | | Unripe fruits *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **not** **eat** | present · do-support | animals | pods *= pod* | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient | | 5 | **is** | present | the seeds | | | | | ready *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **turn** | present | ripe ones | | | | | soft *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | 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:059-seeds-and-fruit-and-how-they-travel.lesson:13`. **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: [Seeds and fruit and how they travel, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/59-seeds-and-fruit-and-how-they-travel/12/) - next →: [Seeds and fruit and how they travel, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/59-seeds-and-fruit-and-how-they-travel/14/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/59-seeds-and-fruit-and-how-they-travel/)