--- title: Many of these plants make caffeine or similar chemicals to defend th… — Sugar, chocolate, tea and coffee: the plants beh… · tree and pragmatics description: Many of these plants make caffeine or similar chemicals to defend themselves from insects. Who acts: Many. 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. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/347-sugar-chocolate-tea-and-coffee-the-plants-behind-treats/8/) [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/) / [Sugar, chocolate, tea and coffee: the…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/347-sugar-chocolate-tea-and-coffee-the-plants-behind-treats/) / 8 # Sugar, chocolate, tea and coffee: the plants behind treats, sentence 8 Many of these plants make caffeine or similar chemicals to defend themselves from insects. **Who acts:** Many · **What happens:** make, defend · **To what, where:** caffeine 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 (Many), 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:8 # text = Many of these plants make caffeine or similar chemicals to defend themselves from insects. # 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 Many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 nsubj _ _ 2 of of ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 3 these this DET DT Number=Plur|PronType=Dem 4 det _ _ 4 plants plant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 nmod _ _ 5 make make VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 caffeine caffeine NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 7 or or CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 8 similar similar ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 chemicals chemical NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 conj _ _ 10 to to PART TO _ 11 mark _ _ 11 defend defend VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 advcl _ _ 12 themselves themselves PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 11 obj _ _ 13 from from ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 insects insect NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 obl _ _ 15 . . PUNCT . _ 5 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 | **make** | present | Many of this plants | caffeine or similar chemicals | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset caffeine=Product | | 2 | **defend** | to-infinitive | Many of this plants *not said here* | caffeine | | | | from insects | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent themselves=Beneficiary from insect=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:347-sugar-chocolate-tea-and-coffee-the-plants-behind-treats.lesson:8`. **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/). - ← previous: [Sugar, chocolate, tea and coffee: the…, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/347-sugar-chocolate-tea-and-coffee-the-plants-behind-treats/7/) - next →: [Sugar, chocolate, tea and coffee: the…, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/347-sugar-chocolate-tea-and-coffee-the-plants-behind-treats/9/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/347-sugar-chocolate-tea-and-coffee-the-plants-behind-treats/)