--- title: Botanists (plant scientists) call tomatoes fruits because they hold… — Friends who cling to a legend · tree and pragmatics description: Botanists (plant scientists) call tomatoes fruits because they hold seeds, but cooks treat them as vegetables, and in 1893 a US court case called them vegetables for tax. Who acts: Botanists, cooks, US court case. 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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 (Botanists, cooks, US court case), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:myths:031-friends-who-cling-to-a-legend.lesson:10 # text = Botanists (plant scientists) call tomatoes fruits because they hold seeds, but cooks treat them as vegetables, and in 1893 a US court case called them vegetables for tax. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = myths # lesson = 031-friends-who-cling-to-a-legend.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): R3-conj-first ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1 1 Botanists botanist NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nsubj _ _ 2 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 4 punct _ _ 3 plant plant NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 4 scientists scientist NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 appos _ _ 5 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 4 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=1:punct 6 call call VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 tomatoes tomato NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obj _ _ 8 fruits fruit NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 xcomp _ _ 9 because because SCONJ IN _ 11 mark _ _ 10 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 11 hold hold VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 advcl _ _ 12 seeds seed NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 obj _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 14 but but CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 15 cooks cook NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 nsubj _ _ 16 treat treat VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 17 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 obj _ _ 18 as as ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 vegetables vegetable NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 obl _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 22 in in ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 1893 1893 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 28 obl _ _ 24 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 25 US US PROPN NNP Number=Sing 27 compound _ _ 26 court court NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 compound _ _ 27 case case NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nsubj _ _ 28 called call VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=16:conj 29 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 obj _ _ 30 vegetables vegetable NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 xcomp _ _ 31 for for ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 32 tax tax NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nmod _ _ 33 . . PUNCT . _ 6 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 | **call** | present | Botanists | tomatoes | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent tomato=Recipient | | 2 | **hold** | present | Botanists *= botanist* | seeds | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent seed=Theme | | 3 | **treat** | present | cooks | seeds *= seed* | | | | as vegetables | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent they=Theme as vegetable=Attribute | | 4 | **call** | past | a US court case | seeds *= seed* | | 1893 | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient | 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:myths:031-friends-who-cling-to-a-legend.lesson:10`. **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): R3-conj-first ×1, R6-punct-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: [Friends who cling to a legend, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/31-friends-who-cling-to-a-legend/9/) - next →: [Friends who cling to a legend, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/31-friends-who-cling-to-a-legend/11/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/31-friends-who-cling-to-a-legend/)