--- title: Desert plants save water too: a cactus stores it in a fat stem and s… — Deserts of the world: fennec foxes, fog-drinking… · tree and pragmatics description: Desert plants save water too: a cactus stores it in a fat stem and swells after rain, like a sponge you fill and then squeeze slowly for months. Who acts: Desert plants, cactus, you. A sentence of the lesson «Deserts of the world: fennec foxes, fog-drinking beetles, camels and silver ants» of the bi --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/182-deserts-of-the-world-fennec-foxes-fog-drinking-beetles-camels-and-silver-ants/3/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/) / [Deserts of the world: fennec foxes, fo…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/182-deserts-of-the-world-fennec-foxes-fog-drinking-beetles-camels-and-silver-ants/) / 3 # Deserts of the world: fennec foxes, fog-drinking beetles, camels and silver ants, sentence 3 Desert plants save water too: a cactus stores it in a fat stem and swells after rain, like a sponge you fill and then squeeze slowly for months. **Who acts:** Desert plants, cactus, you · **What happens:** save, store, swell, fill, squeeze · **To what, where:** water, fat stem, sponge This is a sentence of the lesson «Deserts of the world: fennec foxes, fog-drinking beetles, camels and silver ants» 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 (Desert plants, cactus, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:182-deserts-of-the-world-fennec-foxes-fog-drinking-beetles-camels-and-silver-ants.lesson:3 # text = Desert plants save water too: a cactus stores it in a fat stem and swells after rain, like a sponge you fill and then squeeze slowly for months. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 182-deserts-of-the-world-fennec-foxes-fog-drinking-beetles-camels-and-silver-ants.lesson # annotation = 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, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Desert desert ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 compound _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:amod 2 plants plant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 save save VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 5 too too ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 6 : : PUNCT : _ 9 punct _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 cactus cactus NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 9 stores store VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 10 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 obj _ _ 11 in in ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 13 fat fat NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 compound _ _ 14 stem stem NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 16 swells swell VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 17 after after ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 rain rain NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 20 like like ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 sponge sponge NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:advcl 23 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 24 fill fill VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 acl:relcl _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 26 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 27 advmod _ _ 27 squeeze squeeze VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=24:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 28 slowly slowly ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ _ 29 for for ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 30 months month NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 obl _ _ 31 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **save** | present | Desert plants | water | | | | | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Theme | | 2 | **store** | present | a cactus | water | | a fat stem | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent it=Theme in stem=Location | | 3 | **swell** | present | a cactus *not said here* | | | | after rain | like a sponge | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | | 4 | **fill** | present | you | a sponge *not said here* | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent sponge=Patient | | 5 | **squeeze** | present | you *not said here* | | | | then; month | slowly *property* | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | 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](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:182-deserts-of-the-world-fennec-foxes-fog-drinking-beetles-camels-and-silver-ants.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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, 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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