--- title: Many desert plants, like cactuses, have shallow roots that spread wi… — Plants deeper: roots and how they drink, hold an… · tree and pragmatics description: Many desert plants, like cactuses, have shallow roots that spread wide to catch rain before it dries, while others grow very deep, and a mesquite root was reported over 50 metres deep. Who acts: Many desert plants, shallow roots, plant, others. 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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 (Many desert plants, shallow roots, plant, others), 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:13 # text = Many desert plants, like cactuses, have shallow roots that spread wide to catch rain before it dries, while others grow very deep, and a mesquite root was reported over 50 metres deep. # 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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×3 1 Many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 2 desert desert NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 3 plants plant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 nsubj _ _ 4 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 5 like like ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 cactuses cactus NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nmod _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 8 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 shallow shallow ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 roots root NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obj _ _ 11 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 12 nsubj _ _ 12 spread spread VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 acl:relcl _ _ 13 wide wide ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=12:xcomp|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 14 to to PART TO _ 15 mark _ _ 15 catch catch VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:xcomp 16 rain rain NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ _ 17 before before SCONJ IN _ 19 mark _ _ 18 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 19 dries dry VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 advcl _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 21 while while SCONJ IN _ 23 mark _ _ 22 others other NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 nsubj _ _ 23 grow grow VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=19:conj 24 very very ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 25 deep deep ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 xcomp _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 28 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 29 mesquite mesquite NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 compound _ _ 30 root root NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 nsubj:pass _ _ 31 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 32 aux:pass _ _ 32 reported report VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 8 conj _ _ 33 over over ADV RB _ 34 advmod _ _ 34 50 50 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 35 nummod _ _ 35 metres metre NOUN NNS Number=Plur 36 obl:unmarked _ _ 36 deep deep ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=32:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_ 37 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed polarity=none | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | present | Many desert plants like cactuses | shallow roots | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent root=Patient | | 2 | **spread** | present | shallow roots | | | | | wide *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **catch** | to-infinitive | shallow roots *not said here* | rain | | | | | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rain=Theme | | 4 | **dry** | present | plant | | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 5 | **grow** | present | others | | | | | deep *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **report** | past · passive | | a mesquite root | | | | deep *property* | vn prosecute-33.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | 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:13`. **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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×3. **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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