--- title: In one experiment, mimosa plants dropped again and again without har… — Plants deeper: leaves and sunlight, how a tree i… · tree and pragmatics description: In one experiment, mimosa plants dropped again and again without harm stopped folding and still «remembered» weeks later; scientists still argue about whether to call this learning. Who acts: mimosa plants, scientists, learning. 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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 (mimosa plants, scientists, learning), 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:17 # text = In one experiment, mimosa plants dropped again and again without harm stopped folding and still «remembered» weeks later; scientists still argue about whether to call this learning. # 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): R8-pos-agree ×1 1 In in ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 3 nummod _ _ 3 experiment experiment NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 4 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 5 mimosa mimosa NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 compound _ _ 6 plants plant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nsubj _ _ 7 dropped drop VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 again again ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 10 again again ADV RB _ 8 conj _ _ 11 without without ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 harm harm NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 13 stopped stop VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 advcl _ _ 14 folding folding NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 16 still still ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 17 « « PUNCT `` _ 18 punct _ _ 18 remembered remember VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 13 conj _ _ 19 » » PUNCT '' _ 18 punct _ _ 20 weeks week NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obl:unmarked _ _ 21 later late ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 20 advmod _ _ 22 ; ; PUNCT : _ 25 punct _ _ 23 scientists scientist NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 nsubj _ _ 24 still still ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 25 argue argue VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 parataxis _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=7:parataxis|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 26 about about SCONJ IN _ 29 mark _ _ 27 whether whether SCONJ IN _ 29 mark _ _ 28 to to PART TO _ 29 mark _ _ 29 call call VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 25 advcl _ _ 30 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 31 det _ _ 31 learning learning NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obj _ _ 32 . . 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 | **drop** | past | mimosa plants | | | one experiment | again | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme in experiment=Trajectory | | 2 | **stop** | past | mimosa plants *not said here* | folding | | | | without harm | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality folding=Eventuality | | 3 | **remember** *in a quote* | participle | mimosa plants *not said here* | | | | still; week | | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **argue** *speech: disagree* | present | scientists | | | | still | | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **call** | to-infinitive | this learning | | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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:17`. **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): 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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