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title: Bean and pea plants have lumps on their roots holding bacteria that… — Nuts, beans, seeds and spices · tree and pragmatics
description: Bean and pea plants have lumps on their roots holding bacteria that take nitrogen, a gas in the air that plants need to grow, out of the air, so the soil is richer afterwards and farmers plant beans before wheat. Who acts: Bean plants, roots, bacteria, plants. A sentence of the lesson «Nuts, beans, 
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# Nuts, beans, seeds and spices, sentence 12

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Bean and pea plants have lumps on their roots holding bacteria that take nitrogen, a gas in the air that plants need to grow, out of the air, so the soil is richer afterwards and farmers plant beans before wheat.

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**Who acts:** Bean plants, roots, bacteria, plants, gas, soil · **What happens:** have, hold, take, need, grow, be · **To what, where:** lumps, roots, bacteria, nitrogen, gas, air

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Nuts, beans, seeds and spices» 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 (Bean plants, roots, bacteria, plants), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:348-nuts-beans-seeds-and-spices.lesson:12
# text = Bean and pea plants have lumps on their roots holding bacteria that take nitrogen, a gas in the air that plants need to grow, out of the air, so the soil is richer afterwards and farmers plant beans before wheat.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 348-nuts-beans-seeds-and-spices.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
1	Bean	bean	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	pea	pea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
4	plants	plant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	lumps	lump	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
7	on	on	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	roots	root	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	_
10	holding	hold	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	9	acl	_	_
11	bacteria	bacterium	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
12	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj	_	_
13	take	take	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	acl:relcl	_	_
14	nitrogen	nitrogen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	gas	gas	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	appos	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
21	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	23	obj	_	_
22	plants	plant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nsubj	_	_
23	need	need	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	acl:relcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=20:acl:relcl
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
25	grow	grow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	xcomp	_	_
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
27	out	out	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
32	so	so	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	soil	soil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nsubj	_	_
35	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	36	cop	_	_
36	richer	rich	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	40	advcl	_	_
37	afterwards	afterward	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	_
38	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
39	farmers	farmer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	40	nsubj	_	_
40	plant	plant	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
41	beans	bean	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	40	obj	_	_
42	before	before	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
43	wheat	wheat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=41:nmod
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | Bean plants | lumps |  | plants's roots |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lump=Patient |
| 2 | **hold** | gerund | plants's roots *not said here* | bacteria |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bacterium=Theme |
| 3 | **take** | present | bacteria | nitrogen |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nitrogen=Theme |
| 4 | **need** | present | plants | a gas in the air |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **grow** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | a gas in the air *not said here* |  |  | the air |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme out air=Location |
| 6 | **is** | present | the soil |  |  |  |  | afterward, rich *property* | tree rules |
| 7 | **plant** | present | farmers | beans |  | wheat |  |  | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent bean=Theme before wheat=Destination |

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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): R5-strong ×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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