--- title: Clover, peas and beans have little lumps on their roots full of help… — Plants deeper: roots and how they drink, hold an… · tree and pragmatics description: Clover, peas and beans have little lumps on their roots full of helpful bacteria that take nitrogen from the air and turn it into plant food, and the plant gives them sugar; farmers plant clover or beans to make the soil richer. Who acts: Clover, helpful bacteria, plant, farmers. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Clover, helpful bacteria, plant, farmers), 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:12 # text = Clover, peas and beans have little lumps on their roots full of helpful bacteria that take nitrogen from the air and turn it into plant food, and the plant gives them sugar; farmers plant clover or beans to make the soil richer. # 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, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Clover clover NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 2 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 3 peas pea NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=1:appos 4 and and CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 5 beans bean NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 conj _ _ 6 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 lumps lump NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obj _ _ 9 on on ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 11 nmod:poss _ _ 11 roots root NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 nmod _ _ 12 full full ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 13 of of ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 helpful helpful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 bacteria bacterium NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 obl _ _ 16 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 17 nsubj _ _ 17 take take VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 acl:relcl _ _ 18 nitrogen nitrogen NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obj _ _ 19 from from ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 air air NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 23 turn turn VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=17:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 24 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 obj _ _ 25 into into ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 plant plant NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 compound _ _ 27 food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ _ 28 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 plant plant NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 nsubj _ _ 32 gives give VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:parataxis 33 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 iobj _ _ 34 sugar sugar NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obj _ _ 35 ; ; PUNCT : _ 37 punct _ _ 36 farmers farmer NOUN NNS Number=Plur 37 nsubj _ _ 37 plant plant VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 32 conj _ _ 38 clover clover NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 obj _ _ 39 or or CCONJ CC _ 40 cc _ _ 40 beans bean NOUN NNS Number=Plur 38 conj _ _ 41 to to PART TO _ 42 mark _ _ 42 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 37 advcl _ _ 43 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 44 det _ _ 44 soil soil NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 obj _ _ 45 richer rich ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 42 xcomp _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=44:amod 46 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | present | Clover and peas and beans | little lumps | | Clover's roots | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lump=Patient | | 2 | **take** | present | helpful bacteria | nitrogen | | the air | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent nitrogen=Theme from air=Initial\_Location | | 3 | **turn** | present | helpful bacteria *not said here* | nitrogen | | plant food | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent it=Theme into food=Trajectory | | 4 | **give** | present | the plant | sugar | Clover | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient sugar=Theme | | 5 | **plant** | present | farmers | clover or beans | | | | | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clover=Patient | | 6 | **make** | to-infinitive | farmers *not said here* | the soil | | | | rich *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset soil=Product | 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:250-plants-deeper-roots-and-how-they-drink-hold-and-push.lesson:12`. **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 ×2, 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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