--- title: Here is the surprise: a huge oak does not eat soil to grow. — Plants deeper: leaves and sunlight, how a tree i… · tree and pragmatics description: Here is the surprise: a huge oak does not eat soil to grow. Who acts: surprise, huge oak. 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 its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [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/5/) [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/) / 5 # Plants deeper: leaves and sunlight, how a tree is made of air, sentence 5 Here is the surprise: a huge oak does not eat soil to grow. **Who acts:** surprise, huge oak · **What happens:** be, not eat, grow · **To what, where:** soil 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 (surprise, huge oak), 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:5 # text = Here is the surprise: a huge oak does not eat soil to grow. # 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): no change 1 Here here ADV RB PronType=Dem 0 root _ _ 2 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 cop _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 surprise surprise NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 nsubj _ _ 5 : : PUNCT : _ 11 punct _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 huge huge ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 oak oak NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 9 does do AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 aux _ _ 10 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 11 advmod _ _ 11 eat eat VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 parataxis _ _ 12 soil soil NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ _ 13 to to PART TO _ 14 mark _ _ 14 grow grow VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 advcl _ _ 15 . . PUNCT . _ 1 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** | present | the surprise | | | | | here *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **not** **eat** | present · do-support | a huge oak | soil | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent soil=Patient | | 3 | **grow** | to-infinitive | a huge oak *not said here* | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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:5`. **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): no change. **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/). - ← previous: [Plants deeper: leaves and sunlight, ho…, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/251-plants-deeper-leaves-and-sunlight-how-a-tree-is-made-of-air/4/) - next →: [Plants deeper: leaves and sunlight, ho…, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/251-plants-deeper-leaves-and-sunlight-how-a-tree-is-made-of-air/6/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/251-plants-deeper-leaves-and-sunlight-how-a-tree-is-made-of-air/)