--- title: Grow a bean in a glass jar and you will see fine white fuzz near the… — Plants deeper: roots and how they drink, hold an… · tree and pragmatics description: Grow a bean in a glass jar and you will see fine white fuzz near the root tip: these root hairs give the root a huge surface for drinking, like a towel with lots of loops soaking up more water than a smooth cloth. Who acts: you, root hairs, loops. 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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 (you, root hairs, loops), 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:2 # text = Grow a bean in a glass jar and you will see fine white fuzz near the root tip: these root hairs give the root a huge surface for drinking, like a towel with lots of loops soaking up more water than a smooth cloth. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×5 1 Grow grow VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 bean bean NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 4 in in ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 glass glass NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 compound _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 7 jar jar NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 9 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 10 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 11 aux _ _ 11 see see VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 1 conj _ _ 12 fine fine ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 13 white white ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 fuzz fuzz NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ _ 15 near near ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 17 root root NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 compound _ _ 18 tip tip NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nmod _ _ 19 : : PUNCT : _ 23 punct _ _ 20 these this DET DT Number=Plur|PronType=Dem 22 det _ _ 21 root root NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 compound _ _ 22 hairs hair NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 nsubj _ _ 23 give give VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=1:conj 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 root root NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 iobj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=23:obj 26 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 27 huge huge ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 28 surface surface NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obj _ _ 29 for for ADP IN _ 30 case _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=30:mark|HaikuPos=SCONJ:IN:_ 30 drinking drinking NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=28:acl|HaikuPos=VERB:VBG:VerbForm=Ger 31 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 32 like like ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 33 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 towel towel NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obl _ _ 35 with with ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 36 lots lot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 34 nmod _ _ 37 of of ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 38 loops loop NOUN NNS Number=Plur 36 nmod _ _ 39 soaking soak VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 38 acl _ _ 40 up up ADP RP _ 39 compound:prt _ _ 41 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 42 amod _ _ 42 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 obj _ _ 43 than than ADP IN _ 46 case _ _ 44 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 46 det _ _ 45 smooth smooth ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 46 amod _ _ 46 cloth cloth NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 obl _ _ 47 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **grow** | imperative | you *not said here* | a bean | | a glass jar | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location bean=Theme | | 2 | **see** | future | you | fine white fuzz | | the root tip | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer fuzz=Stimulus | | 3 | **give** | present | this root hairs | a huge surface | the root | | | for drinking | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent root=Recipient surface=Theme for drinking=Asset | | 4 | **soak up** | gerund | loops *not said here* | more water | | | | | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent water=Source | 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:2`. **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): R7-rel-agree ×5. **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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