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title: Soil gives plants water, grip for their roots and minerals such as n… — How plants grow: seeds, light, water and air · tree and pragmatics
description: Soil gives plants water, grip for their roots and minerals such as nitrogen; without minerals plants grow small and yellow. Who acts: Soil, plants. 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 12

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Soil gives plants water, grip for their roots and minerals such as nitrogen; without minerals plants grow small and yellow.

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**Who acts:** Soil, plants · **What happens:** give, grow · **To what, where:** water, plants

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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 (Soil, plants), 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:12
# text = Soil gives plants water, grip for their roots and minerals such as nitrogen; without minerals plants grow small and yellow.
# 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, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Soil	soil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	gives	give	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	plants	plant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	iobj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:compound
4	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	grip	grip	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:obl
7	for	for	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	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	minerals	mineral	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	conj	_	_
12	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP	14	case	_	_
13	as	as	ADP	IN	_	12	fixed	_	_
14	nitrogen	nitrogen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
15	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
16	without	without	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	minerals	mineral	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	_
18	plants	plant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nsubj	_	_
19	grow	grow	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj
20	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	xcomp	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	yellow	yellow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	conj	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | present | Soil | water and grip for water's roots and minerals such nitrogen | plants |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent plant=Recipient water=Theme |
| 2 | **grow** | present | plants |  |  |  |  | without minerals; small *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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:12`.

**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, 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.

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