--- title: Plant cells have a stiff wall, a nucleus and, in green parts, chloro… — The microscopic world: cells, the building block… · tree and pragmatics description: Plant cells have a stiff wall, a nucleus and, in green parts, chloroplasts that catch light; iodine stain makes the nucleus show as a dark dot. Who acts: Plant cells, chloroplasts, iodine stain, nucleus. 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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 (Plant cells, chloroplasts, iodine stain, nucleus), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:256-the-microscopic-world-cells-the-building-blocks-of-life.lesson:8 # text = Plant cells have a stiff wall, a nucleus and, in green parts, chloroplasts that catch light; iodine stain makes the nucleus show as a dark dot. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 256-the-microscopic-world-cells-the-building-blocks-of-life.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 Plant plant NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 cells cell NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 stiff stiff ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 wall wall NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 nucleus nucleus NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 conj _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 12 in in ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 green green ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 parts part NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 conj _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 16 chloroplasts chloroplast NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 appos _ _ 17 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 18 nsubj _ _ 18 catch catch VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 acl:relcl _ _ 19 light light NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obj _ _ 20 ; ; PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 21 iodine iodine NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 compound _ _ 22 stain stain NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nsubj _ _ 23 makes make VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 nucleus nucleus NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nsubj _ _ 26 show show VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 23 xcomp _ _ 27 as as ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 28 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 29 dark dark ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 30 dot dot NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obl _ _ 31 . . 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 | **have** | present | Plant cells | a stiff wall and a nucleus and green parts | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wall=Patient | | 2 | **catch** | present | chloroplasts | light | | | | | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent light=Theme | | 3 | **make** | present | iodine stain | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **show** | infinitive | the nucleus | | | | | as a dark dot | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «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:256-the-microscopic-world-cells-the-building-blocks-of-life.lesson:8`. **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. 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