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title: Pea tendrils feel touch and curl around whatever they meet, sometime… — The vegetable patch: peas, potatoes, tomatoes an… · tree and pragmatics
description: Pea tendrils feel touch and curl around whatever they meet, sometimes within hours, so peas can climb towards the light without growing a thick stem. Who acts: Pea tendrils, tendrils, peas. A sentence of the lesson «The vegetable patch: peas, potatoes, tomatoes and slugs» of the biology course of Mo
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# The vegetable patch: peas, potatoes, tomatoes and slugs, sentence 5

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Pea tendrils feel touch and curl around whatever they meet, sometimes within hours, so peas can climb towards the light without growing a thick stem.

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**Who acts:** Pea tendrils, tendrils, peas · **What happens:** feel, curl, meet, climb, grow · **To what, where:** touch, whatever, light, thick stem

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The vegetable patch: peas, potatoes, tomatoes and slugs» 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 (Pea tendrils, tendrils, peas), 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:5
# text = Pea tendrils feel touch and curl around whatever they meet, sometimes within hours, so peas can climb towards the light without growing a thick stem.
# 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): no change
1	Pea	pea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	tendrils	tendril	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	feel	feel	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	touch	touch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	curl	curl	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
7	around	around	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	whatever	whatever	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	6	obl	_	_
9	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	meet	meet	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	acl:relcl	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	14	advmod	_	_
13	within	within	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	hours	hour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	so	so	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
17	peas	pea	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nsubj	_	_
18	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	climb	climb	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
20	towards	towards	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
23	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
24	growing	grow	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	19	advcl	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	thick	thick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	stem	stem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **feel** | present | Pea tendrils | touch |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent touch=Theme |
| 2 | **curl** | present | Pea tendrils *not said here* |  |  | whatever |  |  | vn coil-9.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme around whatever=Destination |
| 3 | **meet** | present | tendrils *= tendril* |  |  |  | hour |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **climb** | can | peas |  |  | the light |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme towards light=Destination |
| 5 | **grow** | gerund | peas *not said here* | a thick stem |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location stem=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): 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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