Plants deeper: roots and how they drink, hold and push, sentence 1
Roots hold the plant in the ground and take in water and minerals, growing down with gravity and towards water.
Who acts: Roots · What happens: hold, take in, grow down · To what, where: plant, ground, water
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 (Roots), 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 | Roots | root | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 hold | nsubj |
| 2 | hold | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 plant | det |
| 4 | plant | plant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 hold | obj |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 ground | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 ground | det |
| 7 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 hold | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 take | cc |
| 9 | take | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 hold | conj |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 take | compound:prt |
| 11 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 take | obj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 minerals | cc |
| 13 | minerals | mineral | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 water | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 growing | punct |
| 15 | growing | grow | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 take | advcl |
| 16 | down | down | ADV | _ | 15 growing | advmod |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 gravity | case |
| 18 | gravity | gravity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 growing | obl |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 water | cc |
| 20 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 21 water | case |
| 21 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 gravity | conj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 hold | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hold | present | Roots | the plant | the ground | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent plant=Theme in ground=Location | |||
| 2 | take in | present | Roots not said here | water and minerals | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Theme | ||||
| 3 | grow down | gerund | Roots not said here | with gravity and water; down property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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:1.
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): R8-pos-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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