Plants deeper: roots and how they drink, hold and push, sentence 0

When you pull up a weed and a long white root slides out of the soil, you are holding the plant's anchor, its drinking straw and sometimes its larder all in one.

Who acts: you, long white root · What happens: pull up, slide, hold · To what, where: weed, soil, anchor

This is a sentence of the lesson «Plants deeper: roots and how they drink, hold and push» 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 (you, long white root), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	When	when	SCONJ	_	3 pull	mark
2	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 pull	nsubj
3	pull	pull	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 holding	advcl
4	up	up	ADP	_	3 pull	compound:prt
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 weed	det
6	weed	weed	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 pull	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 slides	cc
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 root	det
9	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 root	amod
10	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 root	amod
11	root	root	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 slides	nsubj
12	slides	slide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 pull	conj
13	out	out	ADP	_	16 soil	case
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 soil	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 soil	det
16	soil	soil	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 slides	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 pull	punct
18	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	20 holding	nsubj
19	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 holding	aux
20	holding	hold	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 plant	det
22	plant	plant	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 anchor	nmod:poss
23	's	's	PART	_	22 plant	case
24	anchor	anchor	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 holding	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 straw	punct
26	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 straw	nmod:poss
27	drinking	drinking	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 straw	compound
28	straw	straw	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 anchor	conj
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 larder	cc
30	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	32 larder	advmod
31	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 larder	nmod:poss
32	larder	larder	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 straw	conj
33	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	28 straw	appos
34	in	in	ADP	_	35 one	case
35	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	33 all	nmod
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	20 holding	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	pull up	present	you	a weed		vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent weed=Theme
2	slide	present	a long white root		the soil	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme out soil=Trajectory
3	hold	present · progressive	you	the plant's anchor and root's drinking straw and root's larder		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anchor=Theme

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, 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:biology:250-plants-deeper-roots-and-how-they-drink-hold-and-push.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, 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.

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