Parts of a plant and what each does, sentence 1

The roots hold the plant in the soil and take in water and minerals; the stem holds the plant up and carries water up and food around through thin tubes.

Who acts: roots, stem · What happens: hold, take in, hold up, carry up · To what, where: plant, soil, water, thin tubes

This is a sentence of the lesson «Parts of a plant and what each does» of the world 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 (roots, stem), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 roots	det
2	roots	root	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 hold	nsubj
3	hold	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 plant	det
5	plant	plant	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hold	obj
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 soil	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 soil	det
8	soil	soil	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hold	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 take	cc
10	take	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 hold	conj
11	in	in	ADP	_	10 take	compound:prt
12	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 take	obj
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 minerals	cc
14	minerals	mineral	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 water	conj
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 holds	punct
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 stem	det
17	stem	stem	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 holds	nsubj
18	holds	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 hold	parataxis
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 plant	det
20	plant	plant	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 holds	obj
21	up	up	ADP	_	18 holds	compound:prt
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 carries	cc
23	carries	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 holds	conj
24	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 carries	obj
25	up	up	ADP	_	23 carries	compound:prt
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 food	cc
27	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 water	conj
28	around	around	ADV	_	23 carries	advmod
29	through	through	ADP	_	31 tubes	case
30	thin	thin	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 tubes	amod
31	tubes	tube	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 carries	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 hold	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	hold	present	the roots	the plant	the soil		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent plant=Theme in soil=Location
2	take in	present	the roots not said here	water and minerals			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Theme
3	hold up	present	the stem	the plant			vn support-15.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot plant=Theme
4	carry up	present	the stem not said here	water and food	thin tubes	around property	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=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:world:021-parts-of-a-plant.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): R8-pos-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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