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title: Scientists can grow meat from animal cells in tanks without raising… — The future of life: de-extinction, climate, cora… · tree and pragmatics
description: Scientists can grow meat from animal cells in tanks without raising whole animals; it is sold in a few countries, it could use less land, but it is still expensive. Who acts: Scientists, meat. A sentence of the lesson «The future of life: de-extinction, climate, coral and frozen zoos» of the biology
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# The future of life: de-extinction, climate, coral and frozen zoos, sentence 14

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Scientists can grow meat from animal cells in tanks without raising whole animals; it is sold in a few countries, it could use less land, but it is still expensive.

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**Who acts:** Scientists, meat · **What happens:** grow, raise, sell, use, be · **To what, where:** meat, animal cells, whole animals, few countries, less land

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The future of life: de-extinction, climate, coral and frozen zoos» 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 (Scientists, meat), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:297-the-future-of-life-de-extinction-climate-coral-and-frozen-zoos.lesson:14
# text = Scientists can grow meat from animal cells in tanks without raising whole animals; it is sold in a few countries, it could use less land, but it is still expensive.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 297-the-future-of-life-de-extinction-climate-coral-and-frozen-zoos.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): R5-strong ×1
1	Scientists	scientist	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	grow	grow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	meat	meat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
5	from	from	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	animal	animal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	cells	cell	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:nmod
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	tanks	tank	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
10	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
11	raising	raise	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	advcl	_	_
12	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
14	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj:pass	_	_
16	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux:pass	_	_
17	sold	sell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	parataxis	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	countries	country	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
24	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	use	use	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	conj	_	_
26	less	less	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	27	amod	_	_
27	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
29	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
30	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
31	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	33	cop	_	_
32	still	still	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
33	expensive	expensive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	conj	_	_
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grow** | can | Scientists | meat |  | animal cells |  | in tanks | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient meat=Extent from cell=Initial\_State in tank=Attribute |
| 2 | **raise** | gerund | Scientists *not said here* | whole animals |  |  |  |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent animal=Theme |
| 3 | **sell** | present · passive |  | meat |  | a few countries |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 4 | **use** | could | meat | less land |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent land=Patient |
| 5 | **is** | present | meat |  |  |  | still | expensive *property* | tree rules |

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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.

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**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): R5-strong ×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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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