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title: Water inside plant cells pushes outwards and keeps stems firm, like… — How plants grow: seeds, light, water and air · tree and pragmatics
description: Water inside plant cells pushes outwards and keeps stems firm, like air in a balloon; without enough water the plant wilts. Who acts: Water, plant. A sentence of the lesson «How plants grow: seeds, light, water and air» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the 
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# How plants grow: seeds, light, water and air, sentence 11

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Water inside plant cells pushes outwards and keeps stems firm, like air in a balloon; without enough water the plant wilts.

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**Who acts:** Water, plant · **What happens:** push, keep, wilt · **To what, where:** stems

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This is a sentence of the lesson «How plants grow: seeds, light, water and air» 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 (Water, plant), 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:11
# text = Water inside plant cells pushes outwards and keeps stems firm, like air in a balloon; without enough water the plant wilts.
# 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
2	inside	inside	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	plant	plant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	cells	cell	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	nmod	_	_
5	pushes	push	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	outwards	outward	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	keeps	keep	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
9	stems	stem	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
10	firm	firm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	xcomp	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
12	like	like	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	balloon	balloon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
17	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	23	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=5:punct
18	without	without	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	enough	enough	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	plant	plant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
23	wilts	wilt	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj
24	.	.	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 | **push** | present | Water inside plant cells |  |  |  |  | like air in a balloon; outward *property* | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **keep** | present | Water inside plant cells *not said here* | stems |  |  |  | firm *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stem=Theme |
| 3 | **wilt** | present | the plant |  |  |  |  | without enough water | vn entity\_specific\_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

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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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**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:11`.

**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): R2-punct-next ×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/).

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