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title: Cartoons show a tomato as a vegetable and a banana full of big seeds… — Seeds and fruit and how they travel · tree and pragmatics
description: Cartoons show a tomato as a vegetable and a banana full of big seeds; to a scientist a fruit is the part that grows from the flower and holds the seeds, so a tomato is a fruit, and a shop banana has only tiny dots instead of real seeds. Who acts: Cartoons, fruit, part, tomato. A sentence of the less
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# Seeds and fruit and how they travel, sentence 4

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Cartoons show a tomato as a vegetable and a banana full of big seeds; to a scientist a fruit is the part that grows from the flower and holds the seeds, so a tomato is a fruit, and a shop banana has only tiny dots instead of real seeds.

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**Who acts:** Cartoons, fruit, part, tomato, shop banana · **What happens:** show, be, grow, hold, have · **To what, where:** tomato, part, seeds, fruit, tiny dots

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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 (Cartoons, fruit, part, tomato), 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:4
# text = Cartoons show a tomato as a vegetable and a banana full of big seeds; to a scientist a fruit is the part that grows from the flower and holds the seeds, so a tomato is a fruit, and a shop banana has only tiny dots instead of real 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): R1-cc-next ×3
1	Cartoons	cartoon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	show	show	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	tomato	tomato	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	as	as	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	vegetable	vegetable	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=7:cc
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	banana	banana	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
11	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	seeds	seed	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	_
15	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	scientist	scientist	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	fruit	fruit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
21	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	parataxis	_	_
24	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	25	nsubj	_	_
25	grows	grow	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	acl:relcl	_	_
26	from	from	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	flower	flower	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=25:cc
30	holds	hold	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	conj	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	seeds	seed	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	obj	_	_
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
34	so	so	ADV	RB	_	39	advmod	_	_
35	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	tomato	tomato	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	nsubj	_	_
37	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	39	cop	_	_
38	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	fruit	fruit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	conj	_	_
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
41	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	45	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=39:cc
42	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
43	shop	shop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	compound	_	_
44	banana	banana	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	nsubj	_	_
45	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	39	conj	_	_
46	only	only	ADV	RB	_	48	advmod	_	_
47	tiny	tiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	48	amod	_	_
48	dots	dot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	45	obj	_	_
49	instead	instead	ADV	RB	ExtPos=ADP	52	case	_	_
50	of	of	ADP	IN	_	49	fixed	_	_
51	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	52	amod	_	_
52	seeds	seed	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	45	obl	_	_
53	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **show** | present | Cartoons | a tomato |  |  |  | as a vegetable and a banana | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent tomato=Recipient |
| 2 | **is a** | present | a fruit | the part and a fruit |  |  |  | to a scientist | tree rules |
| 3 | **grow** | present | the part and a fruit |  |  |  |  | from the flower | vn grow-26.2.1 «NP.product V PP.patient»: agent=Product from flower=Patient |
| 4 | **hold** | present | the part and a fruit *not said here* | the seeds |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent seed=Theme |
| 5 | **is a** | present | a tomato | a fruit |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **have** | present | a shop banana | tiny dots |  |  |  | instead real seeds | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dot=Patient |

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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): R1-cc-next ×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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