--- title: Roots hold a plant in the ground and take in water and minerals; the… — Plants deeper: roots and how they drink, hold an… · tree and pragmatics description: Roots hold a plant in the ground and take in water and minerals; they grow down with gravity, towards water and away from light, and the roots of one rye plant, laid end to end, were measured at over 600 kilometres. Who acts: Roots, water, one rye plant. 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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 (Roots, water, one rye plant), 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:5 # text = Roots hold a plant in the ground and take in water and minerals; they grow down with gravity, towards water and away from light, and the roots of one rye plant, laid end to end, were measured at over 600 kilometres. # 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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Roots root NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 hold hold VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 plant plant NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 5 in in ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 ground ground NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 9 take take VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=2:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 10 in in ADP RP _ 9 compound:prt _ _ 11 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 13 minerals mineral NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 conj _ _ 14 ; ; PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 15 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 16 grow grow VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj 17 down down ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=16:compound:prt|HaikuPos=ADP:RP:_ 18 with with ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 gravity gravity NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 21 towards towards ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 24 away away ADV RB _ 22 conj _ _ 25 from from ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 light light NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 42 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=30:punct 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 42 cc _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 roots root NOUN NNS Number=Plur 42 nsubj:pass _ _ 31 of of ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 32 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 34 nummod _ _ 33 rye rye NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 compound _ _ 34 plant plant NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nmod _ _ 35 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 36 laid laid VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 34 acl _ _ 37 end end NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=36:obj 38 to to ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 39 end end NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 nmod _ _ 40 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 41 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 42 aux:pass _ _ 42 measured measure VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 2 conj _ _ 43 at at ADP IN _ 46 case _ _ 44 over over ADV RB _ 45 advmod _ _ 45 600 600 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 46 nummod _ _ 46 kilometres kilometre NOUN NNS Number=Plur 42 obl _ _ 47 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **hold** | present | Roots | a plant | | the ground | | towards water | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent plant=Theme in ground=Location | | 2 | **take in** | present | Roots *not said here* | water and minerals | | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Theme | | 3 | **grow down** | present | water | | | | | with gravity; down *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **laid** | participle | one rye plant *not said here* | end to end | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **measure** | past · passive | | the roots of one rye plant | | 600 kilometres | | | vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP PP.value»: subject=Theme at kilometre=Value | 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:5`. **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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3, 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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