--- title: Put a broad bean in a jam jar with wet paper towel on the windowsill… — How plants grow: seeds, light, water and air · tree and pragmatics description: Put a broad bean in a jam jar with wet paper towel on the windowsill: it drinks, swells and splits, a root pushes down, a shoot pushes up, and it lives on the food packed inside the seed until its first leaves open. Who acts: you, bean, root, shoot. 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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 (you, bean, root, shoot), 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:1 # text = Put a broad bean in a jam jar with wet paper towel on the windowsill: it drinks, swells and splits, a root pushes down, a shoot pushes up, and it lives on the food packed inside the seed until its first leaves open. # 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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Put put VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 broad broad ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 bean bean NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 5 in in ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 jam jam NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 compound _ _ 8 jar jar NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ _ 9 with with ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 10 wet wet ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 11 paper paper NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 compound _ _ 12 towel towel NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nmod _ _ 13 on on ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 windowsill windowsill NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nmod _ _ 16 : : PUNCT : _ 18 punct _ _ 17 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 18 drinks drink VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=1:advcl 19 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 20 swells swell VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 conj _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 22 splits split VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 conj _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 24 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 root root NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nsubj _ _ 26 pushes push VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 conj _ _ 27 down down ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 28 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 29 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 shoot shoot NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nsubj _ _ 31 pushes push VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 conj _ _ 32 up up ADP RP _ 31 compound:prt _ _ 33 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 35 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 36 nsubj _ _ 36 lives live VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 advcl _ _ 37 on on ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 38 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 39 food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obl _ _ 40 packed pack VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 39 acl _ _ 41 inside inside ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 42 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 43 det _ _ 43 seed seed NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 obl _ _ 44 until until SCONJ IN _ 48 mark _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=47:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 45 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 47 nmod:poss _ _ 46 first first ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 47 amod _ _ 47 leaves leaf NOUN NNS Number=Plur 40 obl _ _ 48 open open ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 47 amod _ _ 49 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **put** | imperative | you *not said here* | a broad bean | | a jam jar with wet paper towel on the windowsill | | | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent bean=Theme in jar=Destination | | 2 | **drink** | present | bean | | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **swell** | present | bean *not said here* | | | | | | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | | 4 | **split** | present | bean *not said here* | | | | | | vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 5 | **push down** | present | a root | | | | | down *property* | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **push up** | present | a shoot | | | | | | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **live** | present | shoot | | | the food | | | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on food=Location | | 8 | **pack** | participle | the food *not said here* | shoot's first leaves | | the seed | | | vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme inside seed=Destination | 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:056-how-plants-grow.lesson:1`. **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, R7-rel-agree ×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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [How plants grow: seeds, light, water a…, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/56-how-plants-grow/0/) - next →: [How plants grow: seeds, light, water a…, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/56-how-plants-grow/2/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/56-how-plants-grow/)