--- title: Most seeds need warmth as well as water and air to germinate, and a… — How plants grow: seeds, light, water and air · tree and pragmatics description: Most seeds need warmth as well as water and air to germinate, and a date palm seed about 2000 years old was grown in Israel. Who acts: Most seeds. 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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 (Most seeds), 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:13 # text = Most seeds need warmth as well as water and air to germinate, and a date palm seed about 2000 years old was grown in Israel. # 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, R5-strong ×2 1 Most most ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 2 amod _ _ 2 seeds seed NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 need need VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 warmth warmth NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 5 as as ADV RB ExtPos=ADV 3 advmod _ _ 6 well well ADV RB Degree=Pos 5 fixed _ _ 7 as as ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:obl 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 10 air air NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 conj _ _ 11 to to PART TO _ 12 mark _ _ 12 germinate germinate VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 advcl _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=3:punct 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 16 date date NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 compound _ _ 17 palm palm NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 compound _ _ 18 seed seed NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nsubj:pass _ _ 19 about about ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=21:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 20 2000 2000 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 21 nummod _ _ 21 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 obl:unmarked _ _ 22 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 23 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 24 aux:pass _ _ 24 grown grow VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 conj _ _ 25 in in ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 Israel Israel PROPN NNP Number=Sing 24 obl _ _ 27 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **need** | present | Most seeds | warmth and water and air | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot warmth=Theme | | 2 | **germinate** | to-infinitive | Most seeds *not said here* | | | | | | vn entity\_specific\_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 3 | **grow** | past · passive | | a palm seed | | Israel | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | 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:13`. **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, 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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [How plants grow: seeds, light, water a…, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/56-how-plants-grow/12/) - next →: [How plants grow: seeds, light, water a…, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/56-how-plants-grow/14/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/56-how-plants-grow/)