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title: Cut an apple for your lunchbox and by break time the white flesh has… — Browning apples, rotting and mould · tree and pragmatics
description: Cut an apple for your lunchbox and by break time the white flesh has gone brown. Who acts: you, white flesh. A sentence of the lesson «Browning apples, rotting and mould» of the chemistry course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Browning apples, rotting and mould, sentence 0

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Cut an apple for your lunchbox and by break time the white flesh has gone brown.

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**Who acts:** you, white flesh · **What happens:** cut, go · **To what, where:** apple

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Browning apples, rotting and mould» of the chemistry 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 (you, white flesh), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:chemistry:023-browning-apples-rotting-and-mould.lesson:0
# text = Cut an apple for your lunchbox and by break time the white flesh has gone brown.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = chemistry
# lesson = 023-browning-apples-rotting-and-mould.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	Cut	cut	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	apple	apple	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	for	for	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	lunchbox	lunchbox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
8	by	by	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	break	break	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	flesh	flesh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
14	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	gone	go	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	1	conj	_	_
16	brown	brown	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	xcomp	_	_
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- 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 | **cut** | imperative | you *not said here* | a apple |  |  |  | for your lunchbox | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent apple=Material for lunchbox=Beneficiary |
| 2 | **go** | present · perfect | the white flesh |  |  |  | time | brown *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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**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:chemistry:023-browning-apples-rotting-and-mould.lesson:0`.

**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/).

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