--- title: Roots are slow but strong: they grow cell by cell, each cell swellin… — Plants deeper: roots and how they drink, hold an… · tree and pragmatics description: Roots are slow but strong: they grow cell by cell, each cell swelling with water like a tiny balloon, and together they can lift a paving stone. Who acts: Roots, hairs, cell. A sentence of the lesson «Plants deeper: roots and how they drink, hold and push» of the biology course of Mova's primary sch --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/250-plants-deeper-roots-and-how-they-drink-hold-and-push/3/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/) / [Plants deeper: roots and how they drin…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/250-plants-deeper-roots-and-how-they-drink-hold-and-push/) / 3 # Plants deeper: roots and how they drink, hold and push, sentence 3 Roots are slow but strong: they grow cell by cell, each cell swelling with water like a tiny balloon, and together they can lift a paving stone. **Who acts:** Roots, hairs, cell · **What happens:** be, grow, swell, lift · **To what, where:** cell, paving stone 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, hairs, cell), 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:3 # text = Roots are slow but strong: they grow cell by cell, each cell swelling with water like a tiny balloon, and together they can lift a paving stone. # 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 ×2 1 Roots root NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 2 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 cop _ _ 3 slow slow ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 4 but but CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 5 strong strong ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 conj _ _ 6 : : PUNCT : _ 3 punct _ _ 7 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ _ 8 grow grow VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj 9 cell cell NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl:unmarked _ _ 10 by by ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 cell cell NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nmod _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 13 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 14 det _ _ 14 cell cell NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 conj _ _ 15 swelling swell VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 11 acl _ _ 16 with with ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ _ 18 like like ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 19 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 20 tiny tiny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 balloon balloon NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 24 together together ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ _ 25 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 26 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 27 aux _ _ 27 lift lift VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 parataxis _ _ 28 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 29 paving pave NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 compound _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=30:amod|HaikuPos=VERB:VBG:VerbForm=Ger 30 stone stone NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obj _ _ 31 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | Roots | | | | | slow *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **be** | | Roots *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **grow** | present | hairs *= hair* | cell by cell and each cell | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **swell** | gerund | cell and each cell *not said here* | | | | | with water; like a tiny balloon | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | | 5 | **lift** | can | hairs *= hair* | a paving stone | | | | together *property* | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stone=Theme | 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:3`. **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 ×2. **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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