--- title: Clover roots have tiny lumps full of helpful bacteria that make natu… — Weeds and wildflowers: dandelions, nettles, dais… · tree and pragmatics description: Clover roots have tiny lumps full of helpful bacteria that make natural fertiliser from the air, so farmers grow clover to feed the soil. Who acts: Clover roots, helpful bacteria, farmers. A sentence of the lesson «Weeds and wildflowers: dandelions, nettles, daisies, clover and plantain» of the biol --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/340-weeds-and-wildflowers-dandelions-nettles-daisies-clover-and-plantain/12/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/) / [Weeds and wildflowers: dandelions, net…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/340-weeds-and-wildflowers-dandelions-nettles-daisies-clover-and-plantain/) / 12 # Weeds and wildflowers: dandelions, nettles, daisies, clover and plantain, sentence 12 Clover roots have tiny lumps full of helpful bacteria that make natural fertiliser from the air, so farmers grow clover to feed the soil. **Who acts:** Clover roots, helpful bacteria, farmers · **What happens:** have, make, grow, feed · **To what, where:** tiny lumps, natural fertiliser, air, clover, soil This is a sentence of the lesson «Weeds and wildflowers: dandelions, nettles, daisies, clover and plantain» 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 (Clover roots, helpful bacteria, farmers), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:340-weeds-and-wildflowers-dandelions-nettles-daisies-clover-and-plantain.lesson:12 # text = Clover roots have tiny lumps full of helpful bacteria that make natural fertiliser from the air, so farmers grow clover to feed the soil. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 340-weeds-and-wildflowers-dandelions-nettles-daisies-clover-and-plantain.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 Clover clover NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 roots root NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 tiny tiny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 lumps lump NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ 6 full full ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 7 of of ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 helpful helpful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 bacteria bacterium NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obl _ _ 10 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 11 nsubj _ _ 11 make make VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 acl:relcl _ _ 12 natural natural ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 fertiliser fertiliser NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ _ 14 from from ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 air air NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:nmod 17 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 18 so so ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 19 farmers farmer NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 nsubj _ _ 20 grow grow VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 21 clover clover NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obj _ _ 22 to to PART TO _ 23 mark _ _ 23 feed feed VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 20 advcl _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 soil soil NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obj _ _ 26 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | present | Clover roots | tiny lumps | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lump=Patient | | 2 | **make** | present | helpful bacteria | natural fertiliser | | the air | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V PP»: agent=Asset fertiliser=Product from air=Material | | 3 | **grow** | present | farmers | clover | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location clover=Theme | | 4 | **feed** | to-infinitive | farmers *not said here* | the soil | | | | | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent soil=Recipient | 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:340-weeds-and-wildflowers-dandelions-nettles-daisies-clover-and-plantain.lesson:12`. **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. 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