How plants grow: seeds, light, water and air, sentence 5

A seed takes in water, swells and splits; first a root grows down, then a shoot grows up, and this is called germination.

Who acts: seed, root, shoot · What happens: take, swell, split, grow down, grow up, call · To what, where: water, this · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (seed, 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 seed	det
2	seed	seed	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 takes	nsubj
3	takes	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 water	case
5	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 takes	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 swells	punct
7	swells	swell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 takes	conj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 splits	cc
9	splits	split	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 swells	conj
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 grows	punct
11	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	14 grows	advmod
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 root	det
13	root	root	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 grows	nsubj
14	grows	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 takes	parataxis
15	down	down	ADP	_	14 grows	compound:prt
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 grows	punct
17	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	20 grows	advmod
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 shoot	det
19	shoot	shoot	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 grows	nsubj
20	grows	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 takes	conj
21	up	up	ADP	_	20 grows	compound:prt
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 called	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 called	cc
24	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	26 called	nsubj:pass
25	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 called	aux:pass
26	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 takes	conj
27	germination	germination	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 called	xcomp
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 takes	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	present	a seed		water			vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in water=Location
2	swell	present	a seed not said here					vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
3	split	present	a seed not said here					vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
4	grow down	present	a root				first property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	grow up	present	a shoot			then		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	call	present · passive		this				vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient

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: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): 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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