Let's test it! Experiments and fair tests, sentence 15

Plants need light, water, air and nutrients (plant food from the soil); they do not need music, and studies on sound and plants are unclear.

Who acts: Plants, studies · What happens: need, not need, be · To what, where: light, music

This is a sentence of the lesson «Let's test it! Experiments and fair tests» of the myths 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, studies), 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	(	(	PUNCT	_	12 food	punct
11	plant	plant	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 food	compound
12	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 light	appos
13	from	from	ADP	_	15 soil	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 soil	det
15	soil	soil	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 food	nmod
16	)	)	PUNCT	_	12 food	punct
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 need	punct
18	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 need	nsubj
19	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 need	aux
20	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	21 need	advmod
21	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 need	parataxis
22	music	music	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 need	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 unclear	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 unclear	cc
25	studies	study	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 unclear	nsubj
26	on	on	ADP	_	27 sound	case
27	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 studies	nmod
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 plants	cc
29	plants	plant	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 sound	conj
30	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 unclear	cop
31	unclear	unclear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 need	conj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 need	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	need	present	Plants	light and water and air and nutrients		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot light=Theme
2	not need	present · do-support	plants = plant	music		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot music=Theme
3	is	present	studies on sound and plants		unclear property	tree rules

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:myths:029-let-s-test-it-experiments-and-fair-tests.lesson:15.

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, R6-punct-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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