How plants grow: seeds, light, water and air, sentence 12

Soil gives plants water, grip for their roots and minerals such as nitrogen; without minerals plants grow small and yellow.

Who acts: Soil, plants · What happens: give, grow · To what, where: water, plants

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 (Soil, 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	Soil	soil	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 gives	nsubj
2	gives	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	plants	plant	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 gives	iobj
4	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 gives	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 grip	punct
6	grip	grip	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 water	conj
7	for	for	ADP	_	9 roots	case
8	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 roots	nmod:poss
9	roots	root	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 grip	nmod
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 minerals	cc
11	minerals	mineral	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 roots	conj
12	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP	14 nitrogen	case
13	as	as	ADP	_	12 such	fixed
14	nitrogen	nitrogen	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 minerals	nmod
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 grow	punct
16	without	without	ADP	_	17 minerals	case
17	minerals	mineral	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 grow	obl
18	plants	plant	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 grow	nsubj
19	grow	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 gives	parataxis
20	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 grow	xcomp
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 yellow	cc
22	yellow	yellow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 small	conj
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 gives	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	present	Soil	water and grip for water's roots and minerals such nitrogen	plants				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent plant=Recipient water=Theme
2	grow	present	plants					without minerals; small 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:056-how-plants-grow.lesson:12.

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 ×2, 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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