How plants grow: seeds, light, water and air, sentence 3

Plants also move, slowly: a cress plant on the windowsill leans towards the light, and a sprouting potato in a dark cupboard sends out long pale shoots searching for it.

Who acts: Plants, cress plant, sprouting potato, long pale shoots · What happens: move, lean, send out, search · To what, where: long pale shoots

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 (Plants, cress plant, sprouting potato, long pale shoots), 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	3 move	nsubj
2	also	also	ADV	_	3 move	advmod
3	move	move	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 slowly	punct
5	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	3 move	advmod
6	:	:	PUNCT	_	9 plant	punct
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 plant	det
8	cress	cress	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 plant	compound
9	plant	plant	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 leans	nsubj
10	on	on	ADP	_	12 windowsill	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 windowsill	det
12	windowsill	windowsill	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 plant	nmod
13	leans	lean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 move	parataxis
14	towards	towards	ADP	_	16 light	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 light	det
16	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 leans	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 sends	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 sends	cc
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 potato	det
20	sprouting	sprouting	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 potato	compound
21	potato	potato	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 sends	nsubj
22	in	in	ADP	_	25 cupboard	case
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 cupboard	det
24	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 cupboard	amod
25	cupboard	cupboard	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 potato	nmod
26	sends	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 leans	conj
27	out	out	ADP	_	26 sends	compound:prt
28	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 shoots	amod
29	pale	pale	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 shoots	amod
30	shoots	shoot	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 sends	obj
31	searching	search	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	30 shoots	acl
32	for	for	ADP	_	33 it	case
33	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 searching	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 move	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	move	present	Plants		slowly property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
2	lean	present	a cress plant on the windowsill		towards the light	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	send out	present	a sprouting potato in a dark cupboard	long pale shoots		vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shoot=Theme
4	search	gerund	long pale shoots not said here		for plant	vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.theme NP.location»: agent=Agent for it=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:3.

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): no change. 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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