--- title: A tree has no pump, yet water climbs a hundred metres: leaves lose w… — Plants deeper: the oldest, tallest and strangest… · tree and pragmatics description: A tree has no pump, yet water climbs a hundred metres: leaves lose water into the air and pull up a thin chain of water from the roots, like sucking on a very long straw. Who acts: tree, water, leaves. 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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 (tree, water, leaves), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:253-plants-deeper-the-oldest-tallest-and-strangest-trees.lesson:3 # text = A tree has no pump, yet water climbs a hundred metres: leaves lose water into the air and pull up a thin chain of water from the roots, like sucking on a very long straw. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 253-plants-deeper-the-oldest-tallest-and-strangest-trees.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 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 tree tree NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 5 det _ _ 5 pump pump NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 7 yet yet CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 8 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 9 climbs climb VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 11 hundred hundred NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 12 nummod _ _ 12 metres metre NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obj _ _ 13 : : PUNCT : _ 15 punct _ _ 14 leaves leaf NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 nsubj _ _ 15 lose lose VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 parataxis _ _ 16 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ _ 17 into into ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 air air NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 21 pull pull VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=15:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 22 up up ADP RP _ 21 compound:prt _ _ 23 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 24 thin thin ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 chain chain NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obj _ _ 26 of of ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 27 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nmod _ _ 28 from from ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 roots root NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 obl _ _ 31 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 32 like like SCONJ IN _ 33 mark _ _ 33 sucking suck VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 21 advcl _ _ 34 on on ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 35 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 36 very very ADV RB _ 37 advmod _ _ 37 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 amod _ _ 38 straw straw NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obl _ _ 39 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | present | a tree | no pump | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pump=Patient | | 2 | **climb** | present | water | a hundred metres | | | | | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location metre=Theme | | 3 | **lose** | present | leaves | water | | the air | | | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Eventuality | | 4 | **pull up** | present | leaves *not said here* | a thin chain of water | | the roots | | | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent chain=Theme from root=Initial\_Location | | 5 | **suck** | gerund | leaves *not said here* | | | | | on a long straw | vn chew-39.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent on straw=Patient | 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:253-plants-deeper-the-oldest-tallest-and-strangest-trees.lesson:3`. **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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