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title: Banana plants look like trees, but they are giant herbs; the "trunk"… — Siblings, cousins, grandparents — and the whole… · tree and pragmatics
description: Banana plants look like trees, but they are giant herbs; the "trunk" is made of tightly rolled leaves. Who acts: Banana plants, plants. A sentence of the lesson «Siblings, cousins, grandparents — and the whole playground» of the myths course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the 
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# Siblings, cousins, grandparents — and the whole playground, sentence 10

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Banana plants look like trees, but they are giant herbs; the "trunk" is made of tightly rolled leaves.

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**Who acts:** Banana plants, plants · **What happens:** look, be, make, roll · **To what, where:** giant herbs, trunk

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Siblings, cousins, grandparents — and the whole playground» of the myths 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 (Banana plants, plants), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:myths:032-siblings-cousins-grandparents-and-the-whole-playground.lesson:10
# text = Banana plants look like trees, but they are giant herbs; the "trunk" is made of tightly rolled leaves.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = myths
# lesson = 032-siblings-cousins-grandparents-and-the-whole-playground.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	Banana	banana	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	plants	plant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	look	look	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	like	like	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
7	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
8	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
9	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
10	giant	giant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	herbs	herb	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	_
12	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	3	punct	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	_
15	trunk	trunk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj:pass	_	_
16	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	15	punct	_	_
17	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux:pass	_	_
18	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	parataxis	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	tightly	tightly	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	rolled	roll	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	amod	_	_
22	leaves	leaf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **look** | present | Banana plants |  |  |  |  | like trees | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 2 | **is a** | present | plants *= plant* | giant herbs |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **make** | present · passive |  | the trunk |  |  |  | of rolled leaves | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product |
| 4 | **roll** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | tightly *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «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:myths:032-siblings-cousins-grandparents-and-the-whole-playground.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): 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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