--- title: Most plants get what they need from sunlight, air, water and soil, b… — Plants deeper: carnivorous plants that count, sl… · tree and pragmatics description: Most plants get what they need from sunlight, air, water and soil, but some live in wet bogs where the soil has almost no nitrogen, the stuff plants need to build themselves. Who acts: Most plants, plants, some, soil. 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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 (Most plants, plants, some, soil), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:254-plants-deeper-carnivorous-plants-that-count-slip-and-suck.lesson:0 # text = Most plants get what they need from sunlight, air, water and soil, but some live in wet bogs where the soil has almost no nitrogen, the stuff plants need to build themselves. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 254-plants-deeper-carnivorous-plants-that-count-slip-and-suck.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): R3-conj-first ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Most most ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 2 amod _ _ 2 plants plant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 get get VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 6 obj _ _ 5 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ _ 6 need need VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 ccomp _ _ 7 from from ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 sunlight sunlight NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 10 air air NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 conj _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 12 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 conj _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 14 soil soil NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=12:conj 15 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 16 but but CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 17 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 18 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=18:nsubj|HaikuPos=PRON:DT:PronType=Ind 18 live live VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 19 in in ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 wet wet ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 bogs bog NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obl _ _ 22 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 25 advmod _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 soil soil NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nsubj _ _ 25 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 acl:relcl _ _ 26 almost almost ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ _ 27 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 28 det _ _ 28 nitrogen nitrogen NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obj _ _ 29 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 stuff stuff NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 appos _ _ 32 plants plant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 nsubj _ _ 33 need need VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 acl:relcl _ _ 34 to to PART TO _ 35 mark _ _ 35 build build VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 33 xcomp _ _ 36 themselves themselves PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 35 obj _ _ 37 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **get** | present | Most plants | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 2 | **need** | present | plants *= plant* | | | sunlight and air and water and soil | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot what=Theme | | 3 | **live** | present | some | | | wet bogs | | | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in bog=Location | | 4 | **have** | present | the soil | no nitrogen | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nitrogen=Patient | | 5 | **need** | present | plants | the stuff *not said here* | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **build** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the stuff *not said here* | plants *= plant* | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset themselves=Product | 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:254-plants-deeper-carnivorous-plants-that-count-slip-and-suck.lesson:0`. **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): R3-conj-first ×1, 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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