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title: Dandelions have deep taproots that store food, a piece of root left… — Plants deeper: roots and how they drink, hold an… · tree and pragmatics
description: Dandelions have deep taproots that store food, a piece of root left in the ground can grow a whole new plant, and roasted dandelion roots were used to make a drink like coffee. Who acts: Dandelions, deep taproots, piece. A sentence of the lesson «Plants deeper: roots and how they drink, hold and pus
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# Plants deeper: roots and how they drink, hold and push, sentence 15

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Dandelions have deep taproots that store food, a piece of root left in the ground can grow a whole new plant, and roasted dandelion roots were used to make a drink like coffee.

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**Who acts:** Dandelions, deep taproots, piece · **What happens:** have, store, leave, grow, roast, use · **To what, where:** deep taproots, food, piece, ground, whole new plant, roasted dandelion roots

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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 (Dandelions, deep taproots, piece), 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:15
# text = Dandelions have deep taproots that store food, a piece of root left in the ground can grow a whole new plant, and roasted dandelion roots were used to make a drink like coffee.
# 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): no change
1	Dandelions	dandelion	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	deep	deep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	taproots	taproot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
5	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	6	nsubj	_	_
6	store	store	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl:relcl	_	_
7	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	piece	piece	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	root	root	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
13	left	leave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	acl	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
17	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	grow	grow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
20	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
21	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	plant	plant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
25	roasted	roast	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	27	amod	_	_
26	dandelion	dandelion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	roots	root	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	nsubj:pass	_	_
28	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	aux:pass	_	_
29	used	use	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	conj	_	_
30	to	to	PART	TO	_	31	mark	_	_
31	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	advcl	_	_
32	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	drink	drink	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	_
34	like	like	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	coffee	coffee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nmod	_	_
36	.	.	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 | **have** | present | Dandelions | deep taproots |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent taproot=Patient |
| 2 | **store** | present | deep taproots | food |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Theme |
| 3 | **leave** | participle |  | a piece of root *not said here* |  |  |  | in the ground *result* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in ground=Result |
| 4 | **grow** | can | a piece of root | a whole new plant |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location plant=Theme |
| 5 | **roast** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 6 | **use** | past · passive |  | roasted dandelion roots |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 7 | **make** | to-infinitive |  | a drink |  |  |  | like coffee | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset drink=Product |

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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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**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): no change. **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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