How plants grow: seeds, light, water and air, sentence 1

Put a broad bean in a jam jar with wet paper towel on the windowsill: it drinks, swells and splits, a root pushes down, a shoot pushes up, and it lives on the food packed inside the seed until its first leaves open.

Who acts: you, bean, root, shoot, food · What happens: put, drink, swell, split, push down, push up · To what, where: broad bean, jam jar, food, first leaves, seed

This is a sentence of the lesson «How plants grow: seeds, light, water and air» 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, bean, root, shoot), 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	Put	put	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 bean	det
3	broad	broad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 bean	amod
4	bean	bean	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Put	obj
5	in	in	ADP	_	8 jar	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 jar	det
7	jam	jam	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 jar	compound
8	jar	jar	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Put	obl
9	with	with	ADP	_	12 towel	case
10	wet	wet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 towel	amod
11	paper	paper	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 towel	compound
12	towel	towel	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 jar	nmod
13	on	on	ADP	_	15 windowsill	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 windowsill	det
15	windowsill	windowsill	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 towel	nmod
16	:	:	PUNCT	_	18 drinks	punct
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 drinks	nsubj
18	drinks	drink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Put	parataxis
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 swells	punct
20	swells	swell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 drinks	conj
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 splits	cc
22	splits	split	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 swells	conj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 pushes	punct
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 root	det
25	root	root	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 pushes	nsubj
26	pushes	push	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 swells	conj
27	down	down	ADV	_	26 pushes	advmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 pushes	punct
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 shoot	det
30	shoot	shoot	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 pushes	nsubj
31	pushes	push	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 drinks	conj
32	up	up	ADP	_	31 pushes	compound:prt
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 lives	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 lives	cc
35	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 lives	nsubj
36	lives	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Put	advcl
37	on	on	ADP	_	39 food	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 food	det
39	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 lives	obl
40	packed	pack	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	39 food	acl
41	inside	inside	ADP	_	43 seed	case
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 seed	det
43	seed	seed	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 packed	obl
44	until	until	SCONJ	_	48 open	mark
45	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	47 leaves	nmod:poss
46	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	47 leaves	amod
47	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	40 packed	obl
48	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	47 leaves	amod
49	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Put	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	put	imperative	you not said here	a broad bean	a jam jar with wet paper towel on the windowsill		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent bean=Theme in jar=Destination
2	drink	present	bean				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	swell	present	bean not said here				vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
4	split	present	bean not said here				vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
5	push down	present	a root			down property	vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent
6	push up	present	a shoot				vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent
7	live	present	shoot		the food		vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on food=Location
8	pack	participle	the food not said here	shoot's first leaves	the seed		vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme inside seed=Destination

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:056-how-plants-grow.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): 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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