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title: A carrot is a swollen root that stores food so the plant can flower… — Plants deeper: roots and how they drink, hold an… · tree and pragmatics
description: A carrot is a swollen root that stores food so the plant can flower in its second year, so gardeners pick it in the first year; wild carrots are white and thin, and orange carrots were bred by farmers, many in the Netherlands. Who acts: carrot, swollen root, plant, gardeners. A sentence of the lesso
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# Plants deeper: roots and how they drink, hold and push, sentence 7

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A carrot is a swollen root that stores food so the plant can flower in its second year, so gardeners pick it in the first year; wild carrots are white and thin, and orange carrots were bred by farmers, many in the Netherlands.

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**Who acts:** carrot, swollen root, plant, gardeners, wild carrots, farmers · **What happens:** be, store, flower, pick, breed · **To what, where:** swollen root, food, plant, orange carrots

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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 (carrot, swollen root, plant, gardeners), 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:7
# text = A carrot is a swollen root that stores food so the plant can flower in its second year, so gardeners pick it in the first year; wild carrots are white and thin, and orange carrots were bred by farmers, many in the Netherlands.
# 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 ×1
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	carrot	carrot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	swollen	swollen	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	root	root	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	8	nsubj	_	_
8	stores	store	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	_
9	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
10	so	so	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	plant	plant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
13	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	flower	flower	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	advcl	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
17	second	second	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	18	amod	_	_
18	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	so	so	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
21	gardeners	gardener	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nsubj	_	_
22	pick	pick	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
23	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obj	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	27	amod	_	_
27	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
28	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	32	punct	_	_
29	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	carrots	carrot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	nsubj	_	_
31	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	32	cop	_	_
32	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:conj
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
34	thin	thin	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	conj	_	_
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
37	orange	orange	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
38	carrots	carrot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	40	nsubj	_	_
39	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	40	aux:pass	_	_
40	bred	breed	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	32	conj	_	_
41	by	by	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
42	farmers	farmer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	40	obl	_	_
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
44	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	appos	_	_
45	in	in	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
46	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	47	det	_	_
47	Netherlands	Netherlands	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	44	nmod	_	_
48	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | a carrot | a swollen root |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **store** | present | a swollen root | food |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Theme |
| 3 | **flower** | can | the plant |  |  |  | year |  | vn entity\_specific\_modes\_being-47.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **pick** | present | gardeners | plant |  |  | year |  | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
| 5 | **is** | present | wild carrots |  |  |  |  | white *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **be** |  | wild carrots *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **breed** | past · passive | farmers | orange carrots |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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): R7-rel-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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