--- title: The sensitive plant, mimosa, folds its leaflets within seconds when… — Plants deeper: leaves and sunlight, how a tree i… · tree and pragmatics description: The sensitive plant, mimosa, folds its leaflets within seconds when touched, by moving water out of cells at the base of each leaf. Who acts: sensitive plant. 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 with --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/251-plants-deeper-leaves-and-sunlight-how-a-tree-is-made-of-air/16/) [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: leaves and sunlight, ho…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/251-plants-deeper-leaves-and-sunlight-how-a-tree-is-made-of-air/) / 16 # Plants deeper: leaves and sunlight, how a tree is made of air, sentence 16 The sensitive plant, mimosa, folds its leaflets within seconds when touched, by moving water out of cells at the base of each leaf. **Who acts:** sensitive plant · **What happens:** fold, touch, move · **To what, where:** leaflets, water, cells 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 (sensitive plant), 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:16 # text = The sensitive plant, mimosa, folds its leaflets within seconds when touched, by moving water out of cells at the base of each leaf. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 sensitive sensitive ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 plant plant NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 4 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 5 mimosa mimosa NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 appos _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj 6 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 7 folds fold VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 9 nmod:poss _ _ 9 leaflets leaflet NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obj _ _ 10 within within ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 seconds second NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obl _ _ 12 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 13 advmod _ _ 13 touched touch VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 7 advcl _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 15 by by SCONJ IN _ 16 mark _ _ 16 moving move VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 13 advcl _ _ 17 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obj _ _ 18 out out ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 of of ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 cells cell NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 obl _ _ 21 at at ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 base base NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nmod _ _ 24 of of ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 26 det _ _ 26 leaf leaf NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nmod _ _ 27 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **fold** | present | the sensitive plant | mimosa's leaflets | | | second | | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent leaflet=Patient | | 2 | **touch** | participle | the sensitive plant *not said here* | | | | | | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **move** | gerund | the sensitive plant *not said here* | water | | cells at the base of each leaf | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent water=Theme out cell=Trajectory | 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:251-plants-deeper-leaves-and-sunlight-how-a-tree-is-made-of-air.lesson:16`. **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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