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title: When you pull up a weed and a long white root slides out of the soil… — Plants deeper: roots and how they drink, hold an… · tree and pragmatics
description: When you pull up a weed and a long white root slides out of the soil, you are holding the plant's anchor, its drinking straw and sometimes its larder all in one. Who acts: you, long white root. A sentence of the lesson «Plants deeper: roots and how they drink, hold and push» of the biology course of
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# Plants deeper: roots and how they drink, hold and push, sentence 0

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When you pull up a weed and a long white root slides out of the soil, you are holding the plant's anchor, its drinking straw and sometimes its larder all in one.

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**Who acts:** you, long white root · **What happens:** pull up, slide, hold · **To what, where:** weed, soil, anchor

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Plants deeper: roots and how they drink, hold and push» 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 (you, long white root), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:250-plants-deeper-roots-and-how-they-drink-hold-and-push.lesson:0
# text = When you pull up a weed and a long white root slides out of the soil, you are holding the plant's anchor, its drinking straw and sometimes its larder all in one.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 250-plants-deeper-roots-and-how-they-drink-hold-and-push.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, R6-punct-agree ×1
1	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	3	mark	_	_
2	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	pull	pull	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	advcl	_	_
4	up	up	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	weed	weed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
9	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
10	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	root	root	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	slides	slide	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
13	out	out	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	soil	soil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
18	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
19	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	holding	hold	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	plant	plant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod:poss	_	_
23	's	's	PART	POS	_	22	case	_	_
24	anchor	anchor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=3:punct
26	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
27	drinking	drinking	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
28	straw	straw	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=20:obj
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
30	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	32	advmod	_	_
31	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
32	larder	larder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	conj	_	_
33	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	28	appos	_	_
34	in	in	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	33	nmod	_	_
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	20	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pull up** | present | you | a weed |  |  |  |  | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent weed=Theme |
| 2 | **slide** | present | a long white root |  |  | the soil |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme out soil=Trajectory |
| 3 | **hold** | present · progressive | you | the plant's anchor and root's drinking straw and root's larder |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anchor=Theme |

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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.

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**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:250-plants-deeper-roots-and-how-they-drink-hold-and-push.lesson:0`.

**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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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