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title: The same few ideas answer many questions: plants make food from ligh… — The big biology quiz, part 2: plants, the body a… · tree and pragmatics
description: The same few ideas answer many questions: plants make food from light, every living thing carries a recipe called DNA, and germs come in different kinds, so each needs the right weapon. Who acts: same few ideas, plants, living thing, recipe. A sentence of the lesson «The big biology quiz, part 2: pl
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# The big biology quiz, part 2: plants, the body and microbes, sentence 3

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The same few ideas answer many questions: plants make food from light, every living thing carries a recipe called DNA, and germs come in different kinds, so each needs the right weapon.

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**Who acts:** same few ideas, plants, living thing, recipe, germs, each · **What happens:** answer, make, carry, call, come in, need · **To what, where:** many questions, food, light, recipe, DNA, different kinds · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The big biology quiz, part 2: plants, the body and microbes» 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 (same few ideas, plants, living thing, recipe), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:299-the-big-biology-quiz-part-2-plants-the-body-and-microbes.lesson:3
# text = The same few ideas answer many questions: plants make food from light, every living thing carries a recipe called DNA, and germs come in different kinds, so each needs the right weapon.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 299-the-big-biology-quiz-part-2-plants-the-body-and-microbes.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): R7-rel-agree ×2
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	ideas	idea	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	answer	answer	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	questions	question	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
8	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	5	punct	_	_
9	plants	plant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
10	make	make	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj
11	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
12	from	from	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	17	det	_	_
16	living	living	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
18	carries	carry	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	recipe	recipe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	acl	_	_
22	DNA	DNA	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	xcomp	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
25	germs	germ	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nsubj	_	_
26	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	conj	_	_
27	in	in	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
28	different	different	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	kinds	kind	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=26:obj
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
31	so	so	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
32	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	33	nsubj	_	_
33	needs	need	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
35	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	weapon	weapon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obj	_	_
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## 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 | **answer** *speech: assert* | present | the same few ideas | many questions |  |  |  |  | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent question=Eventuality |
| 2 | **make** | present | plants | food |  | light |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V PP»: agent=Asset food=Product from light=Material |
| 3 | **carry** | present | every living thing | a recipe |  |  |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent recipe=Theme |
| 4 | **call** | participle | a recipe *not said here* | DNA |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **come in** | present | germs | different kinds |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **need** | present | each | the right weapon |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot weapon=Theme |

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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): R7-rel-agree ×2. **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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