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title: Chocolate starts as bitter beans inside big pods on cocoa trees in h… — Chocolate and sweets · tree and pragmatics
description: Chocolate starts as bitter beans inside big pods on cocoa trees in hot countries, mostly in West Africa, and ends as a shiny bar in a lunchbox thousands of kilometres away. Who acts: Chocolate. A sentence of the lesson «Chocolate and sweets» of the technology course of Mova's primary school with its
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# Chocolate and sweets, sentence 0

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Chocolate starts as bitter beans inside big pods on cocoa trees in hot countries, mostly in West Africa, and ends as a shiny bar in a lunchbox thousands of kilometres away.

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**Who acts:** Chocolate · **What happens:** start, end · **To what, where:** big pods

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Chocolate and sweets» of the technology 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 (Chocolate), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:technology:002-chocolate-and-sweets.lesson:0
# text = Chocolate starts as bitter beans inside big pods on cocoa trees in hot countries, mostly in West Africa, and ends as a shiny bar in a lunchbox thousands of kilometres away.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = technology
# lesson = 002-chocolate-and-sweets.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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2
1	Chocolate	chocolate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	starts	start	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	as	as	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	bitter	bitter	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	beans	bean	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
6	inside	inside	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_
7	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	pods	pod	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
9	on	on	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	cocoa	cocoa	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	countries	country	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nmod	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	mostly	mostly	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	West	West	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	Africa	Africa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=14:appos
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	ends	end	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
23	as	as	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	shiny	shiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	bar	bar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
27	in	in	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=30:det
29	lunchbox	lunchbox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	_
30	thousands	thousand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nmod	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	kilometres	kilometre	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	nmod	_	_
33	away	away	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- 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 | **start** | present | Chocolate |  |  | big pods on cocoa trees in hot countries in West Africa |  | as bitter beans | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 2 | **end** | present | Chocolate *not said here* |  |  |  |  | as a shiny bar in lunchbox thousands of kilometres | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |

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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:technology:002-chocolate-and-sweets.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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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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