--- title: A plant is a food factory: in its green leaves it takes light from t… — How plants grow: seeds, light, water and air · tree and pragmatics description: A plant is a food factory: in its green leaves it takes light from the Sun, water from the ground and carbon dioxide from the air, and turns them into sugar, giving out oxygen as it works; this is called photosynthesis. Who acts: plant, it. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (plant, it), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:056-how-plants-grow.lesson:0 # text = A plant is a food factory: in its green leaves it takes light from the Sun, water from the ground and carbon dioxide from the air, and turns them into sugar, giving out oxygen as it works; this is called photosynthesis. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 056-how-plants-grow.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 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 plant plant NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 compound _ _ 6 factory factory NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 7 : : PUNCT : _ 11 punct _ _ 8 in in ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 9 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 11 nmod:poss _ _ 10 green green ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 leaves leaf NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 appos _ _ 12 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 13 takes take VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 acl:relcl _ _ 14 light light NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ _ 15 from from ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 Sun Sun PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 19 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 conj _ _ 20 from from ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 ground ground NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nmod _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 24 carbon carbon NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 compound _ _ 25 dioxide dioxide NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 conj _ _ 26 from from ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 air air NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nmod _ _ 29 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 31 turns turn VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:conj 32 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 obj _ _ 33 into into ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 34 sugar sugar NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obl _ _ 35 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 36 giving give VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 31 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=34:acl 37 out out ADP RP _ 36 compound:prt _ _ 38 oxygen oxygen NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obj _ _ 39 as as SCONJ IN _ 41 mark _ _ 40 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 41 nsubj _ _ 41 works work VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 36 advcl _ _ 42 ; ; PUNCT , _ 45 punct _ _ 43 this this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 45 nsubj:pass _ _ 44 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 45 aux:pass _ _ 45 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 6 parataxis _ _ 46 photosynthesis photosynthesis NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 xcomp _ _ 47 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | a plant | a food factory | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **take** | present | it | light | | the Sun | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent light=Theme from sun=Initial\_Location | | 3 | **turn** | present | | water | | sugar | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent they=Theme into sugar=Trajectory | | 4 | **give out** | gerund | | oxygen | | | | | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent oxygen=Theme | | 5 | **work** | present | plant | | | | | | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **call** | present · passive | | this | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=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. 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