The big biology quiz, part 2: plants, the body and microbes, sentence 5

Plants need light, water, air and nutrients from the soil; they make their own food from sunlight, water and carbon dioxide and give out oxygen.

Who acts: Plants · What happens: need, make, give out · To what, where: light, soil, own food, sunlight, oxygen

This is a sentence of the lesson «The big biology quiz, part 2: plants, the body and microbes» 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 (Plants), 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	Plants	plant	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 need	nsubj
2	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 need	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 water	punct
5	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 light	conj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 air	punct
7	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 light	conj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 nutrients	cc
9	nutrients	nutrient	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 light	conj
10	from	from	ADP	_	12 soil	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 soil	det
12	soil	soil	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 need	obl
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 make	punct
14	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 make	nsubj
15	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 need	parataxis
16	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 food	nmod:poss
17	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 food	amod
18	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 make	obj
19	from	from	ADP	_	20 sunlight	case
20	sunlight	sunlight	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 make	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 water	punct
22	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 sunlight	conj
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 dioxide	cc
24	carbon	carbon	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 dioxide	compound
25	dioxide	dioxide	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 sunlight	conj
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 give	cc
27	give	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 make	conj
28	out	out	ADP	_	27 give	compound:prt
29	oxygen	oxygen	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 give	obj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 need	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	need	present	Plants	light and water and air and nutrients	the soil	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot light=Theme
2	make	present	plants = plant	plants's own food	sunlight and water and carbon dioxide	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V PP»: agent=Asset food=Product from sunlight=Material
3	give out	present	plants = plant not said here	oxygen		vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent oxygen=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:299-the-big-biology-quiz-part-2-plants-the-body-and-microbes.lesson:5.

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 ×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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