--- title: Root hairs are tiny tubes near the root tip that greatly increase th… — Plants deeper: roots and how they drink, hold an… · tree and pragmatics description: Root hairs are tiny tubes near the root tip that greatly increase the surface for taking in water; each lives only a few days, and new ones keep growing near the tip. Who acts: Root hairs, tiny tubes, each, new ones. 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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 (Root hairs, tiny tubes, each, new ones), 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:6 # text = Root hairs are tiny tubes near the root tip that greatly increase the surface for taking in water; each lives only a few days, and new ones keep growing near the tip. # 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, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 Root root NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 hairs hair NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 3 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 4 tiny tiny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 tubes tube NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 6 near near ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 8 root root NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 compound _ _ 9 tip tip NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nmod _ _ 10 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 12 nsubj _ _ 11 greatly greatly ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 12 increase increase VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 acl:relcl _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=5:acl:relcl|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 surface surface NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ _ 15 for for SCONJ IN _ 16 mark _ _ 16 taking take VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 12 advcl _ _ 17 in in ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ _ 19 ; ; PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 20 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 21 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=21:nsubj|HaikuPos=PRON:DT:PronType=Tot 21 lives live VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 22 only only ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 23 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 24 few few ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 days day NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 obl:unmarked _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=31:punct 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 28 new new ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 29 ones one NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 nsubj _ _ 30 keep keep VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 conj _ _ 31 growing grow VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 30 xcomp _ _ 32 near near ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 tip tip NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obl _ _ 35 . . PUNCT . _ 5 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 a** | present | Root hairs | tiny tubes | | the root tip | | | tree rules | | 2 | **increase** | present | tiny tubes | the surface | | | | greatly *property* | vn caused\_calibratable\_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Causer surface=Patient | | 3 | **take** | gerund | tiny tubes *not said here* | | | water | | | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in water=Location | | 4 | **live** | present | each | | | | day | | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **keep** | present | new ones | | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **grow** | gerund | new ones *not said here* | | | the tip | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme near tip=Location | 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:6`. **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, R8-pos-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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