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title: Seaweeds and tiny algae in the sea also photosynthesise, and ocean a… — Plants deeper: leaves and sunlight, how a tree i… · tree and pragmatics
description: Seaweeds and tiny algae in the sea also photosynthesise, and ocean algae and similar tiny sea life make roughly half of the world's oxygen. Who acts: Seaweeds, ocean algae. A sentence of the lesson «Plants deeper: leaves and sunlight, how a tree is made of air» of the biology course of Mova's primar
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# Plants deeper: leaves and sunlight, how a tree is made of air, sentence 13

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Seaweeds and tiny algae in the sea also photosynthesise, and ocean algae and similar tiny sea life make roughly half of the world's oxygen.

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**Who acts:** Seaweeds, ocean algae · **What happens:** photosynthesise, make · **To what, where:** half

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Plants deeper: leaves and sunlight, how a tree is made of air» 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 (Seaweeds, ocean algae), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:251-plants-deeper-leaves-and-sunlight-how-a-tree-is-made-of-air.lesson:13
# text = Seaweeds and tiny algae in the sea also photosynthesise, and ocean algae and similar tiny sea life make roughly half of the world's oxygen.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 251-plants-deeper-leaves-and-sunlight-how-a-tree-is-made-of-air.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): R1-cc-next ×2, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Seaweeds	seaweed	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=1:cc
3	tiny	tiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	algae	alga	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:nmod
8	also	also	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	photosynthesise	photosynthesise	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
12	ocean	ocean	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=13:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos
13	algae	alga	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nsubj	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=13:cc
15	similar	similar	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
16	tiny	tiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
17	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
19	make	make	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
20	roughly	roughly	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	half	half	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	19	obj	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod:poss	_	_
25	's	's	PART	POS	_	24	case	_	_
26	oxygen	oxygen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **photosynthesise** | present | Seaweeds in the sea and tiny algae |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **make** | present | ocean algae and similar tiny sea life | half of the world's oxygen |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset half=Product |

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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): R1-cc-next ×2, R5-strong ×1, 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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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