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title: Roots hold the plant in the ground and take in water and minerals, g… — Plants deeper: roots and how they drink, hold an… · tree and pragmatics
description: Roots hold the plant in the ground and take in water and minerals, growing down with gravity and towards water. Who acts: Roots. A sentence of the lesson «Plants deeper: roots and how they drink, hold and push» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatic
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# Plants deeper: roots and how they drink, hold and push, sentence 1

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Roots hold the plant in the ground and take in water and minerals, growing down with gravity and towards water.

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**Who acts:** Roots · **What happens:** hold, take in, grow down · **To what, where:** plant, ground, water

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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 (Roots), 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:1
# text = Roots hold the plant in the ground and take in water and minerals, growing down with gravity and towards water.
# 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): R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Roots	root	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	hold	hold	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	plant	plant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	take	take	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=2:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf
10	in	in	ADP	RP	_	9	compound:prt	_	_
11	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	minerals	mineral	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	conj	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	growing	grow	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	_
16	down	down	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
17	with	with	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	gravity	gravity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
20	towards	towards	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hold** | present | Roots | the plant |  | the ground |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent plant=Theme in ground=Location |
| 2 | **take in** | present | Roots *not said here* | water and minerals |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Theme |
| 3 | **grow down** | gerund | Roots *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with gravity and water; down *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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: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.

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

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