--- title: Plants need light, water, air and nutrients from the soil; they make… — The big biology quiz, part 2: plants, the body a… · tree and pragmatics description: Plants need light, water, air and nutrients from the soil; they make their own food from sunlight, water and carbon dioxide and give out oxygen. Who acts: Plants. 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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 (Plants), 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:5 # text = Plants need light, water, air and nutrients from the soil; they make their own food from sunlight, water and carbon dioxide and give out oxygen. # 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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Plants plant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 need need VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 light light NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 4 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 5 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 conj _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 7 air air NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 conj _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 9 nutrients nutrient NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 conj _ _ 10 from from ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 soil soil NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:nmod 13 ; ; PUNCT : _ 15 punct _ _ 14 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 15 make make VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj 16 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 18 nmod:poss _ _ 17 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ _ 19 from from ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 sunlight sunlight NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 22 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 conj _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 24 carbon carbon NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 compound _ _ 25 dioxide dioxide NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 conj _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 27 give give VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 conj _ _ 28 out out ADP RP _ 27 compound:prt _ _ 29 oxygen oxygen NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obj _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **need** | present | Plants | light and water and air and nutrients | | the soil | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot light=Theme | | 2 | **make** | present | plants *= plant* | plants's own food | | sunlight and water and carbon dioxide | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V PP»: agent=Asset food=Product from sunlight=Material | | 3 | **give out** | present | plants *= plant* *not said here* | oxygen | | | | | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent oxygen=Theme | 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:299-the-big-biology-quiz-part-2-plants-the-body-and-microbes.lesson:5`. **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, R7-rel-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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