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title: Every sweet treat starts as a plant. — Sugar, chocolate, tea and coffee: the plants beh… · tree and pragmatics
description: Every sweet treat starts as a plant. Who acts: sweet treat. A sentence of the lesson «Sugar, chocolate, tea and coffee: the plants behind treats» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Sugar, chocolate, tea and coffee: the plants behind treats, sentence 0

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Every sweet treat starts as a plant.

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**Who acts:** sweet treat · **What happens:** start

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Sugar, chocolate, tea and coffee: the plants behind treats» 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 (sweet treat), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:347-sugar-chocolate-tea-and-coffee-the-plants-behind-treats.lesson:0
# text = Every sweet treat starts as a plant.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 347-sugar-chocolate-tea-and-coffee-the-plants-behind-treats.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	Every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	3	det	_	_
2	sweet	sweet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	treat	treat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	starts	start	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	as	as	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	plant	plant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **start** | present | every sweet treat |  |  |  |  | as a plant | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |

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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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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