--- title: Watch a pea plant for a day: its thin curly tendrils feel for a stic… — The vegetable patch: peas, potatoes, tomatoes an… · tree and pragmatics description: Watch a pea plant for a day: its thin curly tendrils feel for a stick and wrap round it within hours, hauling the plant up towards the light like a climber on a rope. Who acts: you, thin curly tendrils. 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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 (you, thin curly tendrils), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:338-the-vegetable-patch-peas-potatoes-tomatoes-and-slugs.lesson:1 # text = Watch a pea plant for a day: its thin curly tendrils feel for a stick and wrap round it within hours, hauling the plant up towards the light like a climber on a rope. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 338-the-vegetable-patch-peas-potatoes-tomatoes-and-slugs.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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Watch watch VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 pea pea NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 4 plant plant NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 5 for for ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ _ 8 : : PUNCT : _ 13 punct _ _ 9 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 12 nmod:poss _ _ 10 thin thin ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 11 curly curly ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 tendrils tendril NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 nsubj _ _ 13 feel feel VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=1:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 14 for for ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 stick stick NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 18 wrap wrap VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 conj _ _ 19 round round ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 20 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=18:obj 21 within within ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 hours hour NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:obl 23 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 24 hauling haul VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 18 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:advcl 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 plant plant NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obj _ _ 27 up up ADP RP _ 24 compound:prt _ _ 28 towards towards ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 light light NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl _ _ 31 like like ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 32 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 climber climber NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nmod _ _ 34 on on ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 35 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 rope rope NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 nmod _ _ 37 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **watch** | imperative | you *not said here* | a pea plant | | | day | | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plant=Theme | | 2 | **feel** | present | place's thin curly tendrils | | | | | for a stick | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent for stick=Theme | | 3 | **wrap** | present | place's thin curly tendrils *not said here* | place | | | hour | round *property* | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **haul up** | gerund | place's thin curly tendrils *not said here* | the plant | | the light like a climber on a rope | | | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent plant=Theme towards light=Destination | 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:338-the-vegetable-patch-peas-potatoes-tomatoes-and-slugs.lesson:1`. **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 ×2, 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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